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Industries of Cleveland 



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Mercantile and Manufacturing Progress 



FOREST CITY, 



TOGETHER WITH 



A CONDENSED SUMMARY OF HER MATERIAL 
DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY 



A SERIES OF COMPREHENSIVE SKETCHES 



REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS HOUSES. 



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PREFACE. 



THE object of this work is two-fold — first, to lay before the reader in con- 
cise yet comprehensive form a plain and unadorned narrative of 
Cleveland's past career, a succinct presentation of her present cor- 
porate, commercial and manufacturing magnitude, and a prophetic view of 
her coming greatness ; second, to employ the same vehicle for conveying to 
buyers and consumers at a distance, through the appended series of brief 
sketches of leading business houses, producers and handlers, some adequate 
idea of the resources of this market, and thereby attract to it a still larger 
share of trade and a greater share of active, enterprising immigration and 
productive capital. 

In this, as in all similar works, the projectors have had many and serious 
obstacles to contend with, principally at the hands of those who should 
have been most earnest and liberal in their encouragement ; consequently 
the space devoted to some important interests is limited ; but we have at 
least the satisfaction of feeling that we have conscientiously performed the 
duty assumed to the best of our ability. We wish in this place to acknowl- 
edge our obligations to all who have extended assistance in the matter of 
data or otherwise, prominent among whom are Librarian Brett of the Public 
Library; Messrs. Bowler & Co.; the Leader Publishing Company ; the Plain 
Dealer; Mr. A. A. Pomeroy, editor of the Marine Record • the Cleveland 
Stone Company (who supplied the material used in the construction of the 
High School and Masonic Temple, illustrated in these pages); the Globe 
Iron Works Company ; the Cleveland Ship-building Company ; Wm. Ed- 
wards & Co.; Mcintosh, Huntington & Co.; Benton, Myers & Co.; Root 
& McBride Bros.; Cleveland Co-operative Stove Co.; Chisholm Steel 
Shovel Works.; Johns & Co., lithographers; The Williams Publishing Co., 
and others. 

The result of our labors is herewith presented, and if its perusal and effect 
gives the Cleveland public half as much satisfaction as its preparation has 
caused us thought and anxiety, we shall feel abundantly repaid. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

The Past 7-16 

The Present 17-29 

City Government 30- 33 

Banks and Banking 34 

Trade and Commerce 35- 37 

Transportation 39- 46 

Leading Manufactures 47- 48 

The Press 49- 53 

Representative Houses 55-208 

Index 209-213 

Advertisements 214-216 



PROMINENT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGE. 

Birds-Eye View of Cleveland 4 

Garfield Monument 6 

City Hall 18 

High School . ; • : , 26 

Masonic Temple ' 38 

Globe Iron Works 54 

Globe Iron Works Shipyard 56 

Glidden & Joy's Varnish Works 61 

Cleveland Ship-Building Co. — Engine 65 

Fisher & Wilson Co.'s Lumber Yards 94 

O'Donnell & Barrett — Elevator 124 



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THE PAST. 



Aboriginal Occupants — The Western Reserve — New Connecticut — 
Territorial Government — Cleaveland's Survey — Platting of the 
Village — Growth and Charter of Town and City — Union with 
Ohio City — Railroads and Navigation — Public Instruction and 
Improvement — Manufactures and Commerce. 



IT is not to be expected that in a work of this kind, necessarily compact 
and brief in character, the author should enter into a detailed and par- 
ticular account of all historical and legendary events and speculations ante- 
rior to the actual settlement of the locality of which he writes ; consequently 
much that is of itself interesting, though irrelative, will be entirely ignored 
or lightly touched upon, the seeker for mere literary amusement and ac- 
counts of romantic adventure being referred to the former historical publica- 
tions to be found on the shelves of the Historical Society and the Public Li- 
brary. Cleveland- herself is our subject, and we shall confine ourselves to 
a plain matter-of-fact account of her origin, vicissitudes and progress to the 
present time, with casual reference to such individuals and occurrences 
as have exerted marked influence upon her growth and well-being. 

The French missionary, La Roche Daillon, is credited with the first 
reliable information supplied to Europeans concerning the Indian occu- 
pants of the country, lying between the Cuyahoga and Niagara rivers. He 
carried the gospel to the Neuter Nation, on the north shore of Lake Erie, 
as long ago as 1626, and visited some of their scattered villages west of 
Buffalo, where he learned that the warlike Eries held the entire south shore 
from Cataraugus creek to Sandusky. These Indians were related in blood 
and language to the celebrated Five Nations (Mohawks, Cayugas, Onon- 
dagas, Oneidas and Senecas), who in 1650 extirpated their only rivals in 
Western New York — the Hurons and Kahquahs. Four years later, as the 
Six Nations (having admitted the Tonawandas to their confederation), they 
made relentless war upon the Eries, who retired with 1000 warriors to a 
point near Cleveland, fortified their position, and awaited results. The 
enemy soon appeared, 1800 strong, coming in canoes, which they used as 



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shields, assaulted the doomed Eries and exterminated them with the 
exception of a few children. The victorious Iroquois were now masters of 
the magnificent hunting grounds and the lake east of the Cuyahoga, while 
westward to Lake Michigan the Chippewas, Ottawas and Pottawatomies 
claimed and held the country. 

It is claimed that the Cavalier La Salle, in 1669, came to the south 
shore of Lake Erie, crossed the trackless wilderness to the Ohio, and 
descended that fine river to the falls. He published, in 1672, a map of 
Lake Erie, partly drawn from imagination — the first ever made — and six 
years later built a vessel in the Niagara river, embarked therein and 
explored the lake in all of its extent and the adjacent country as well. His 
vessel was lost mysteriously in 1678. La Salle was a daring and adven- 
turous man, and to him more than to any other individual France owed 
her temporary ascendency on the lakes and the Upper Mississippi. The 
Iroquois continued in possession of the country for a long period, until its 
purchase and settlement by the whites subsequent to the old French war, 
1744 — 1748, at the conclusion of which the American colonists began a 
movement that culminated, after the surrender of Canada to the English, in 
placing this region under the domination of the British crown as a part of 
the province of Quebec, previous to which, however, the French had erected 
forts at Pittsburgh, Detroit, and on the Cuyahoga several miles from the 
lake. Later it became a portion of New York, subject to the claims of 
Virginia and Connecticut, the first named States ceding their rights to the 
general government in 1780, and Connecticut following their example in 
1786, except as to a strip lying between parallels 40 on the south and 42 
V on the north and 120 miles long from the western boundary of Pennsyl- 
vania. This strip comprises the world-renowned Western Reserve — a tract 
of unsurpassed farming and grazing land, at the extreme northwest corner 
of which now stands the rich and populous city of which its people are 
so justly proud — the northern metropolis of the State — the far-famed Forest 
City — Cleveland. 

The mouth of the Cuyahoga was first utilized as a port in 1786, when 
Lake Erie's mercantile marine consisted of a single small schooner, the 
Mackinaw. The occasion was the shipment of a lot of flour and bacon to 
Detroit consignees, the goods being brought hither on horseback through 
the wilderness. It is stated that ninety horses and thirty men were em- 
ployed in this service, making six round trips from and to Pittsburgh and 
consuming an entire summer. Those were slow times. 

The Northwest Territory, comprising all that vast region lying be- 
tween the Allegheny mountains on the east, the Mississippi river on the 
west, the lakes on the north, and the Ohio river on the south, was organized 
by act of Congress in July, 1787, and the original white settlement of Ohio 
was made at the mouth of the Muskingum river and called Fort Harmar, 
the site of the present town of Marietta. In 1789 the country west of the 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CIEVELAND. 



Cuyahoga was finally ceded by the aborigines to the government, but the 
next year they began a series of bloody outrages on the frontier that led to 
war, General Harmar being defeated by the savages that year and General 
St. Clair meeting a like fate in 1791. The celebrated Fire Lands," half a 
million acres at the western extremity of the Reserve, were so named be- 
cause of their cession by the Connecticut Legislature, in 1792, to parties 
whose property was destroyed by the British forces in the War of the Revo- 
lution. In 1794 General Anthony Wayne, at the head of a strong and 
well-appointed body of troops, was sent to the frontier to look after the 
eleven tribes of marauding Indians — a duty which he discharged so well 
that they were glad to treat for peace on any terms. 

Early in 1795 the Connecticut Legislature appointed a 'com- 
mission of eight, with authority to sell the Western Reserve lands, or 
3,000,000 acres thereof adjoining the Pennsylvania line, at not less than 
33}i cents per acre — all to be disposed of before any titles were to be con- 
veyed — a work which was performed to the satisfaction of all concerned, 
the price obtained being 40 cents per acre. An , association of the pur- 
chasers was then formed, known as the Connecticut Land Company, of 
which Jonathan Brace, John Caldwell and John Morgan were made trus- 
tees, with power to issue deeds as provided for in an agreement to divide 
the property, officers of the organization having authority to allot to each 
member his pro rata share. A board of seven directors was also provided 
for, whose duty it was to sell that poition of the company's lands lying east 
of the Cuyahoga river. General Moses Cleaveland of Canterbury, Connec- 
ticut, was a member of this board, and when, in the spring of 1796, a sur- 
veying party was organized to proceed to tne Reserve and lay out the lands 
referred to, he was placed at its head. The expedition, well supplied with 
whisky and trumpery merchandise, held a pow-wow with the representatives 
of the Iroquois at the present site of Buffalo, beginning on June 21. On 
the 2 2d the chiefs of the noble red men, including Joseph Brandt and Red 
Jacket, got frightfully drunk, and on the 23d, while still suffering from their 
debauch, they were induced, by the promise of $1500 worth of beads, cheap 
cutlery, etc., to conclude a,treaty by which settlers on the Reserve were to 
live unmolested forever. Embarking in boats, the explorers reached 
Conneaut July 4, celebrated the day, and pushed on to the Cuyahoga 
("Crooked River"), arriving July 26, and immediately establishing head- 
quarters on shore. The first houses ever built by American citizens in 
Cuyahoga county were soon after erected on the east shore of the river, 
near the mouth — a small log cabin and warehouse, the first for Job Stiles 
and wife, and the latter for the surveying party's scanty stores, of which 
Job was made custodian. The Reserve was at that time popularly called 
New Connecticut, and, acting upon the authority vested in him by the com- 
pany he represented, Cleaveland selected a tract of 520 acres fronting on the 
lake, on the eastern shore and at the mouth of the Cuyahoga, for the capi- 
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tal, surveying and making a plat of the same in September. 1796, the tract 
being divided into two-acre lots. He could have hardly anticipated the 
wonderful subsequent growth of the place, as he made provision for twelve 
streets and lanes only. The division into town lots was afterward com- 
pleted, and then came the task of selecting a name for the infant city of the 
wilderness — a point decided by Cleaveland's associates, who concluded that 
the name of their leader. was sufficiently euphonious and particularly appro- 
priate. It is asserted that the elimination of the " a " from the city's name 
is due to the ingenuity of a newspaper printer of 1830, whose poverty of 
materials forced him to leave out a letter of the title in order to crowd the 
name into the space allotted to it. At any rate, whatever its origin, the 
innovation became popular, and for many years the present orthography has 
been universally accepted. Moses Cleaveland was a native of Canterbury, 
Connecticut ; born January 27, 1754 ; graduated from Yale in 1777 ; was a 
captain in the Continental army ; a successful lawyer, a member of the 
Legislature, a brigadier-general of the militia, and Grand Master of the 
Grand Lodge of Connecticut, F. and A. M. Soon after completing his 
labors as pioneer civil engineer of Northern Ohio, General Cleaveland 
gathered his party together and returned to his Connecticut home, where, 
in 1806, he died, honored and respected by the entire commonwealth. 

After his departure the sole remaining white occupants of New Connec- 
ticut were Job Stiles, his wife, and one Joseph Landon — the latter soon 
afterward disappearing. Edward Paine, an Indian trader (subsequently 
General Paine of Painesville), came a little later, made his home with the 
Stiles family, and waxed rich. Mrs. Stiles is said to have been the mother 
of the first white native of Northeastern Ohio, born in that humble cabin by 
the Cuyahoga, in 1797. During this year James Kingsbury and family, 
Major Lorenzo Carter and his brother-in-law, Ezekiel Hawley, with their 
families, arrived here, all coming from New England — the Kingsburys from 
New Hampshire, the Carters and Hawleys from Vermont. In June David 
Eldridge, one of the surveying party, who had returned, died, and in July 
one Clement, a Canadian, was married to Chloe Inches, a servant in Car- 
ter's family. In connection with this wedding we first find mention of 
Rev. Seth Hart. Among the prominent arrivals during the summer of 
1799 were David and Gilman Bryant, father and son; Rudolphico Ed- 
wards and Nathaniel Doane. Chills and fever were prevalent this summer 
in the " bottom," and several of the settlers built cabins and removed to 
the high grounds several miles from the mouth of the river. The same year W. 
W. Williams and a Major Wyatt erected a grist mill — the first in this section 
— at the Mill creek falls, to which they added a saw-mill the next season. 
Miss Sarah Doane, a daughter of Nathaniel, opened a school at Newburg 
in 1800, which was for a time the only fount of learning in what is now 
Cuyahoga county, the settlers' children for miles around attending. The 
same year the title to the Reserve was reconveyed by the general govern- 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



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raent to the State of Connecticut, and on the 10th of July following the 
Territorial Legislature erected the county of Trumbull, so named for Gov- 
ernor Trumbull of the Nutmeg State. In the fall of the same year Edward 
Paine was elected to the Legislature, forty-two votes being cast, of which 
he received thirty-eight. Previous to that time all Eastern Ohio comprised 
but two counties — Jefferson and Wayne — out of which was carved Trum- 
bull, embracing within its limits the present Cuyahoga and several other 
counties. 

The year 1801 was a prosperous one for the new settlement, notwith- 
standing the arrival of a lawyer — Samuel Huntington — and the erection of 
a distillery by David Bryant. Independence day was celebrated this year 
by a ball, at which were present nearly all the white people of the village 
and vicinity, some thirty in number. New whisky, maple sugar and danc- 
ing were the order of the day and night, and " the rude forefathers of the 
village" probably had a glorious time — of the kind— and appropriate to the 
period. 

Two years later, in 1803, Ohio was admitted to the Union, and in the re- 
organization Trumbull county was entitled to a Senator, that honor falling 
to Samuel Huntington, the lawyers then, as now, coming in for most of the 
plums. He was chosen to preside over the Senate, and in April appointed 
to the Supreme bench of the new State. The usual and natural growth and 
progress of new communities attended Cleveland until, in 1809, Cuyahoga 
county was organized, bounded almost as at present, the only changes since 
made being the loss of Willoughby township, ceded to Lake county, and 
the gain from the same county of Dover and Olmstead townships. The 
first legally constituted court of record convened June 10, 1810, in a small 
frame building on Superior street, Judge Ruggles on the bench, John Wal- 
worth, clerk, and S. S. Baldwin, sheriff. The first regular court-house, a 
substantial log structure, was erected on the Public Square in 181 2, and the 
first execution — an Indian, for the murder of two white men — took place 
the same year. He was a "big brave," and boasted how fearlessly he 
could die, but when the time came the sheriff could do nothing with him 
until Lorenzo Carter (the dread of all the Indians hereabout) came on the 
scene, gave the criminal a pint of whisky, and persuaded him to meet 
death under the influence of Dutch - courage. Carter was a vigorous and 
fearless man, and his word was law with the red men as well as with the 
lower class of whites. He was also an enterprising man, and in 1808 owned 
the first vessel that ever traded regularly out of this port — the sloop 
Zephyr, the pioneer of Cleveland's lake commerce — but it was not until 
1814 that the port of Cleveland became of any importance, the harbor 
being extremely shallow and cargoes lightered to and from vessels lying off 
shore. Despite all disadvantages, however, trade increased, and finally 
the general government was induced to undertake the work which, extended 
from time to time, has resulted in the excellent harbor facilities now en- 



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joyed. The village was chartered by the Legislature in the winter of 
1814-15, and the first Monday [of the ensuing June nine of the twelve 
voters were elected to office, Alfred Kelley heading the list as Mayor. 
The Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, Leonard Case president, was estab- 
lished in 1816. A year later an Episcopal church congregation was 
founded — the germ from which grew Trinity church corporation, organized 
in 1828. The Presbyterian church was established here in 1820, the Metho- 
dists in 1830, the Baptists in 1832, the Catholics in 1835, the Israelites in 
1839. A sailors' bethel was built in 1835. As a consequence of the con- 
struction of the Erie canal "from Buffalo to Albany, begun in 1817, the State 
of Ohio commenced the same year the building of a similar work from 
Cleveland to Portsmouth. Ten years later, when Cleveland had but 1,000 
inhabitants, the canal was completed to Akron, the center of a rich 
farming country, which sought a market for its produce via the new public 
work, and at the same time offered through the same route a promising field 
for mercantile enterprise — an opportunity that was not wasted, as statistics 
of the time show a trade between the points named aggregating $200,000 in 
value, while the shipping facilities of the port were proportionately in- 
creased. The canal statistics for 1830 show shipments of 5oo r ooo bushels 
of wheat and 100,000 barrels of flour, besides great quantities of other 
commodities. The canal was opened its entire length in 1832, and 
the same year an immense volume of immigration set in from New 
England. 

The Gazette and Commercial Register, Cleveland's pioneer newspaper, 
appeared July 31, 1818, and was followed a year later by the Herald, a 
paper which for sixty years stood at the head of Northern Ohio journalism, 
finally committing hari-kari in a senseless quarrel with a rival. The same 
fate seems in store for its two morning survivors, both of which devote 
much space to personal and political vituperation that might be more 
profitably given to the news of the day. 

The Walk-in-the- Water, the pioneer lake steamer, bound from Buffalo to 
Detroit, arrived at Cleveland September 1, 1819, and was appropriately re- 
ceived and saluted. \ 

A private corporation undertook the building of a pier and the improve- 
ment of the harbor in 18 16, but storms destroyed their work, and nothing 
more was attempted until 1826, when Congress made an appropriation for 
the building of piers, the opening of the eastern channel, and the removal 
of obstructions from the river's mouth — a work which gave a grand impetus 
to commerce in this port. 

The log court-house erected on the Public Square in 18 10 had become 
inadequate as a temple of justice by the year 1828, and in that year a neat 
frame building was completed for the purpose at the southwest corner of 
the square, and occupied forthwith. Four years later crime had become 
so common from the advent of the riff-raff of all nations that .a new jail 



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had become a necessity, and was built on Champlain street, not far from 
Seneca. 

The phenomenal exodus from New England to the West, which began in 
1832,. continued unabated for several years, Cleveland benefiting greatly 
from it — so much, indeed, that her population in 1835 had risen to 5,080, 
while her trade and manufactures had increased out of all proportion to 
the number of her citizens — a result due no doubt to the industrious, ener- 
getic and ingenious character of the sturdy race who from the first and to 
this day have continued to control her destinies. 

Up to this time we have stuck closely to our text — the history of Cleve- 
land — making only such diversions as were necessary to a clear narration 
thereof. Now, however, it becomes incumbent upon us to refer briefly to 
her nearest and only pretentious rival, Ohio City, perched upon the slopes 
and heights west of the river, now known as West Cleveland, or, more 
popularly, the West Side. A bitter jealousy had long existed between the 
two towns, each striving for precedence, and when Cleveland received her 
charter in 1836 the rage of her trans-Cuyahoga neighbors knew no 
bounds. It is laughable now, but it was a serious matter then, and led to 
bloodshed in 1837, the circumstances being as follows: A conspicuous 
and public-spirited citizen of Cleveland, James S. Clark by name, in 1835, 
at his own expense, constructed a substantial and serviceable drawbridge 
across the river at Columbus street, dedicating the same to the common 
use of the public, free of charge. Ohio City's charter was issued in 1837, 
whereupon began a wrangle between the Councils of the respective cities 
over precedence and control of the bridge, each claiming prior and exclu- 
sive rights, which claims were equally preposterous on the part of either. 
Nevertheless, violent partisans were not wanting to champion the cause of 
each; inflammatory appeals were made to the passions of the thoughtless 
and reckless; epithets, threats and boasts were bandied, and finally came 
the culmination — the famous and sanguinary battle of the bridge. An 
armed mob appeared simultaneously at each end of the structure, both 
equally determined to seize and hold it, and bullets, stones, clubs and 
miscellaneous missiles we?e employed with telling effect. Notwithstand- 
ing the Clevelanders had a piece of artillery so planted as to command the 
bridge, the West-siders proved the better soldiers or the most numerous, 
for they drove their antagonists off, captured and spiked the gun, cut away 
the draw across the channel, blew up the middle pier, partially destroyed 
the abutment on their own side of the' river, and were preparing to carry 
the war into Africa, when the mayor of Cleveland, backed by the sheriff of 
the county, came upon the scene, and with a strong posse seized the ap- 
proaches to the bridge and made numerous arrests. A good many men 
were more or less seriously injured in the melee. The dispute was finally 
settled by judicial decision, and the cruel war came to an end. 

Up to 1836 there were no public schools — a want provided for by Coun- 



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cil June 22, when an ordinance was passed levying a tax for that purpose. 
The same body in the succeeding October appointed a board of school 
managers, consisting of John W. Willey, Daniel Woolley and Anson Hay- 
den. Council followed up the work by enacting a school ordinance in July, 
1837, and in 1839, on tne recommendation of the school board, the city ac- 
quired what was known as the <f old academy " property on St. Clair street, 
and lots on Prospect and Brownell streets, upon which modest frame school- 
houses were erected. The capacity of the three schools was sufficient for 
only 600 pupils, and before the first of January, 1840, there were over 1000 
applicants for admission, of whom 900 were accommodated by the building 
of additions and the renting of rooms. A high school for boys was 
opened in the old Prospect-street church in July, 1846 ,with an attendance of 
34, which increased during the term to 83. A question having arisen as 
to the legality of the high school establishment, recourse was had to the 
Legislature, which conferred upon Council the requisite authority, and an 
ordinance subsequently passed made it a permanent branch of the system 
of public instruction. The city acquired the ground upon which the Cen- 
tral High School now stands in 1856, upon which a temporary school-house 
was erected, and in 1858 built the present edifice. 

When chartered as a city, in 1836, Cleveland had a population of nearly 
4000. At the city election in April of that year Leonard Case and John 
W. Willey were candidates for mayor, the latter winning by a handsome 
majority. The first municipal legislature consisted of Richard Hilliard, 
Nicholas Dockstader and Joshua Mills, aldermen, and Morris Hepburn, 
John R. St. John, W. V. Craw, S. J. Andrews, H. L. Noble, Edward Bald- 
win, Aaron Strickland, Horace Canfield, and A. M. T. Smith, councilmen. 
The vote cast was 580. S. J. Andrews was chosen president of Council, 
and H. B. Payne clerk and city attorney. The city then comprised three 
wards, and the fourth was not added until 1850, though in the meantime 
the population had increased to over 18,000. Three more wards were or- 
ganized in 1854. 

The Legislature in February, 1846, on a special petition, empowered the 
city by its representatives to subscribe to the capital stock of the Cincin- 
nati, Columbus & Cleveland Railway Company in the sum of $200,000. 
Two years later, by the same authority, $ 100,000 was subscribed to the 
Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad. In 185 1 $200,000 was subscribed to the 
stock of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula railroad, the State taking 
$100,000 worth of Junction railroad stock— the latter road connecting 
Cleveland and Toledo. These last named roads, subsequently passing 
under one management, now form the Ohio section of the magnificent 
double-track Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the finest, costliest and 
most perfectly equipped steel highway in the West. The Cincinnati, Colum- 
bus & Cleveland, another, superb and profitable road, also in large part 



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owes its speedy construction and very existence to the timely aid thus given 
by the enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Cleveland. 

The original Cleveland Water Company was incorporated in 1833, but 
accomplished nothing. An act passed the Legislature in May of 1854 
authorizing Council to submit a proposition to the popular vote to negotiate 
a loan, to the amount of $100,000, for the purpose of establishing water- 
works. The measure carried, the money was quickly raised, and in 1856 the 
entire city was abundantly supplied with pure Lake Erie water. The mains 
and service have been extended with the growth of the municipality, and 
probably no population on earth are better provided in this respect than 
that of Cleveland. 

The Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Company, incorporated February 6, 
1846, let its franchise lie idle for two years, when M. G. Younglove took 
hold of the enterprise and pushed it to a successful issue. 

In 1854, previous jealousies having been allayed, the former rivals, Cleve- 
land and Ohio City, with a combined population of over 25,000 and casting 
a vote of 3160, decided at the polls to consolidate as a single city under a 
common name, buried the hatchet and united their fortunes — a step that 
has resulted in unnumbered advantages to all concerned. June 5 the agree- 
ment was signed by representatives of the respective cities, the necessary 
ordinances were adopted by the two Councils, ratification ensued the next 
day, and Ohio City was merged into Cleveland, as wards 8, 9, 10 and n. 

The population of Cleveland in i860, as shown by the census, was 43,- 
838. By annexations of new territory August 6, 1867, there were fifteen 
wards, East Cleveland village was admitted October 24, 1872, as the Six- 
teenth and Seventeenth wards, and Newburg as the Eighteenth December 
18, 1873. Council redivided the city into twenty-five wards February 4, 
1884, and again, February 23, 1886, into forty wards, each entitled to one 
representative in the body creating it. 

We summarize : The United States census for 1870 puts the population 
of Cleveland at 92,825. Ten years later (1880) the figures had expanded 
to 160,141. Since then the increase has been both steady and rapid — 1881, 
167.413; 1882, 185,851,; 1883, 194,684 ; 1884, 200,429; 1885, 205,446; 
1886, 238,953 ; and, according to the carefully prepared estimate of the 
City Directory, the population contained within the corporate limits July 
1, 1887, was 239,226 — the lowest ratio of gain for many years, due, no 
doubt, to the general good times that have prevailed everywhere, thus 
removing the incentive to migration, and to other easily ascertained causes. 
Tax duplicate for 1887, $92,000,000. Real estate is on a sound and healthy 
basis, requiring no undue stimulation to assist the steady appreciation of 
values. For the five months ending June 1, 1887, real estate to the value of 
$5,066,327 was transferred in Cleveland as compared with $3,159,509 dur- 
ing the corresponding five months of 1886. Building operations are con- 
stantly active, the twenty seven brick yards of Cleveland turning out in 



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1886 more than 60,000,000 brick, worth in the aggregate nearly $490,000. 
There were received at Cleveland, in 1886, 325,000,000 feet of lumber, 50,- 
000,000 shingles and 30,000,000 lath. 

Cleveland's first railroad — the Cincinnati, Columbus & Cleveland — was 
opened to traffic in 185 1. In quick succession the Cleveland & Pittsburgh 
Lake Shore, Cleveland & Mahoning Valley and Junction (to Toledo) fol- 
lowed, and the city enjoyed the distinction of being a great railway center 
— an honor somewhat dashed, however, by the fact that the two first 
named, with eastern connections, rather overdid the thing and carried trade 
to distant points, thus for a while checking business and seriously threaten- 
ing the lake commerce of the port. Eventually the other lines more than 
compensated for this drawback by bringing the agricultural and mining 
regions of the interior within easy reach, thus imparting a fresh impetus to 
merchandising and manufactures, and incidentally preparing the way for the 
substantial progress and prosperity which have attended Cleveland for many 
years. Her advantageous position with reference to the coal fields on the 
Southeast and the iron mines of the Northwest was perceived at an early 
day by enterprising men, and the building of railroads and fleets of lake 
craft supplied the opportunity which they were not slow in utilizing of mak- 
ing this the most important of the Western iron manufacturing centers' — an 
accomplished fact attested no less by her thousand smoke-belching chim- 
neys, her ringing factories and multitude of well-paid toilers than by dry 
statistics. It would be impossible to name all, and invidious to distinguish 
by special mention only a few of those who contributed in the past of their 
time, labor and means to build up and conduct to a successful issue the 
material interests — the trade, manufactures, commerce and internal im- 
provements of this city and the region round about. Suffice -it to say that 
they were many, determined, capable and industrious, and their monuments 
are found in the beautiful city of which they were the builders — in its splen- 
did business thoroughfares, its magnificent residence streets and avenues, 
its institutions of learning and art, its churches, theaters, hotels, public 
buildings, parts and myriad evidences of broad culture and liberal spirit. 



THE PRESENT. 



"Location — Climate — Water and Light — Sanitary Conditions — 
Streets — Parks — Cemeteries — Public Buildings — Churches — 
Places of Amusement — Libraries— Charitable Institutions — Hotels 
— Street Railways — Public Improvements — City Finances — Public 
Schools. 



THE city of Cleveland, county seat of Cuyahoga, and metropolis of 
Northern Ohio, is situated in north latitude 41 3c/, west longitude 
8i° 27', on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, distant by rail 183 
miles from Buffalo, 676 miles from New York, 357 miles from Chi- 
cago, 245 miles from Cincinnati, 173 miles from Detroit, 150 miles from Pitts- 
burgh, and 138 miles from Columbus, the capital of the State. The climate 
is for the most part a salubrious one, and were it not for the fierce gales (to 
which, however, all the lake region is subject) and the light sandy soil upon 
which the city is built, there would be few pleasanter places of residence on 
this continent. The signal service reports for 1887 — January to October 
inclusive — present the subjoined record of meteorological conditions : 

January— it^t inches rain, 10 inches snow. Mean temperature for month, 
24t°<&° ; highest, 6o^° above, 05^° below zero. Velocity of wind in miles 
for month, 9,212 ; greatest velocity in one hour, 37 miles. 

February — 7 tVu inches rain, 2^ inches snow. Mean temperature, 31^°; 
highest, 6i° ; lowest, 9^° ; variations, 5 i T 8 o°. Velocity of wind in miles, 
7,446 • greatest velocity in one hour, 44 miles. 

March — Rainfall, 3^ inches ; sriowfall. 2tW inches. Mean temperature, 
; highest, 63 ; lowest, iitu 2 o° ; variation, 51T1& . Velocity of wind 
in miles, 7,109 ; greatest velocity in one hour, 27 miles. 

April — Rainfall, ito 2 u inches ; snowfall, 4 inches. Mean temperature, 
45tV&° ; highest, 76 ; lowest, igrou. Variations, 5 6$k° for month. Veloc- 
ity of wind in miles, 6,900 ; greatest velocity during one hour, 31 miles. 

May — Rainfall, 3tVjt inches. Mean temperature, 6t^ 5 -°; highest tempera- 
ture, 84 ; lowest, 415^5° ; variations, 43 Velocity of wind in miles, 
5i io 3 ) greatest velocity during one hour, 27 miles. 

June — Rainfall, 2"^ inches. Mean temperature, 68~° ; highest, 87 ; 



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lowest, 50^° ; variations, 361%%°. Velocity of wind in miles, 5,041 : greatest 
velocity in one hour, 24 miles. 

July — Rainfall, f~ of an i.nch. Mean temperature, 76—° ;' highest, 
; lowest, 59^° ; variations, 35^. Velocity of wind in miles, 4,760; 
greatest velocity during one hour, 24 miles. 

August — Rainfall, 3^- inches. Mean temperature, 69 ; highest, 94 ; 
lowest, 46 ~°; variations, 47t% 3 o°. Velocity of wind in miles, 4,763 ; great- 
est velocity during one hour, 24 miles. 

September — Rainfall, 3-^ inches. Mean temperature, 6i-~ ° ; highest, 
93 ; lowest, 361°^° ; variations, 56t tr>°. Velocity of wind in miles, 5,318 ; 
greatest velocity during one hour, 30 miles. 

October — Rainfall, iWfe inches (with a trace of snow). Mean tempera- 
ture, 50TTn> Q ; highest, 8itVs°; lowest, 24t°t&°; variations, 5 7^ °. Velocity of 
wind in miles, 7,773 ; greatest velocity during one hour, 36 miles. 

Notes for 1886. — Greatest rainfall occurred in June; coldest month, 
January; average temperature for 15 years — January, 26 ; February, 
27i o o 8 ff ; March, 33^0°; April, 4 5°; May, 57^; June, 67^/; July, 
7it<5%°; August, 69"^°; September, 63^°; October, 53 . November, 39° ; 
December, 31'^° ■ Greatest depth of snow for 1886, 10 inches, in January. 

The average temperature in summer is 68°, in winter 20 ; average maxi- 
mum, 92 ; average minimum, 5 ; average mean, about 49°. The even- 
ings and nights are cool and refreshing; there are few mosquitoes, and 
sound, healthful sleep is the rule. In this connection it may not be amiss 
to refer to the arrangements for a water supply, upon which is dependent 
in great degree the health and safety of the city. Surveys for the estab- 
lishment of the present system, contemplating the avoidance of the im- 
purities carried by [he river to the lake, were made in 1868, and work at 
once begun. The tunnel to the crib is a mile and a quarter in length, five 
feet by five feet two inches interior diameter, and 90 feet below the sur- 
face. The crib itself. 60 feet in height, is pentagonal, built with a view to 
great strength, sheathed with two inches of solid oak and protected at the 
water line by a five-foot course of half-inch boiler plates to prevent injury 
from ice. The pumping .capacity is 40,000,000 gallons daily ; average con- 
sumption about 18,000.000 gallons. Mains and service pipes extend to all 
parts of the city. 

The lighting of the city is very good, the system combining both gas 
and electricity, the latter being employed in that portion of the business 
quarter lying between Erie street and the lake and river, in which district 
are erected several tall hollow steel masts from 180 to 260 feet in height, 
each bearing at its summit a cluster of Brush arc lights. Euclid avenue is 
lighted by a number of 2000-candle power electric lamps, and many stores 
and other private business places are similarly illuminated. 

The healthfulness of the city is undisputed, and is improving with its 
growth, the reports of Dr. Ashmun, health officer, for the past three years 



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showing deaths from all causes for 1884, -3,732; for 1885, 3,574; for 1886, 
3,525 — a considerable falling off, notwithstanding the increase of popula- 
tion. Of the deaths for three years 963 were from zymotic, 557 from con- 
stitutional, 1,468 from local, and 385 from developmental diseases; by 
violence, 152; by suicide, 11; average death rate about 16 per 1,000. No 
doubt much of the disease and death prevalent are due to the filthy condi- 
tion of the river, consequent upon the numerous uncleanly industries that 
line its banks, but this state of affairs will be remedied in time by sanitary 
restrictions and dredging the "river bed. Dr. Ashmun and his assistants 
have already accomplished much toward the abatement of plague-breeding 
nuisances, and the work will be continued on a more comprehensive scale in 
future. 

Though laid out so irregularly as to be extremely confusing, the princi- 
pal business and residence streets and avenues, particularly of the east side, 
.are broad and well built, and wonderfully attractive to the stranger, who 
notes with pleasure and satisfaction the evidences seen on all sides of estab- 
lished and enduring prosperity. Many of the business structures on Lake, 
St. Clair, Superior, Water, Bank, Seneca, Ontario, Bond, Wood, Erie, Pros- 
pect, Huron and other streets, and on Euclid avenue, would reflect credit 
upon the leading Eastern cities, while the .residence thoroughfares are 
adorned with tasteful grounds and palatial homes unsurpassed by those of 
any American community. The manufacturing districts also boast a vast 
number of immense establishments — iron mills, foundries, wood, brass, tin, 
copper, leather, paper, woolen, cotton, paint, varnish, tobacco and cigar 
factories. This is headquarters of the illuminating and lubricating oil trade, 
and besides the big monopoly there are some forty or fifty smaller firms 
within the city limits engaged in the refining of mineral oils, the manufac- 
ture of greases, and the manipulation of petroleum products, naphtha, paraf- 
fine, vaseline, etc. 

The public breathing places — the parks — are a never-failing source of 
pride to the citizens, and with good reason. The oldest of these is Monu- 
mental park, known also as the Public Square — a lovely spot indeed, an 
oasis in the desert of paved streets and brick walls. It embraces ten acres 
of ground, surrounded and intersected by streets, contains many fine forest 
trees, and during the warm months receives unremitting attention from an 
accomplished landscape gardener and his assistants, under whose skillful 
care it is made to "blossom as the rose," with rare shrubs and blushing, 
fragrant flowers. This spot was the court-house square of Cleveland's village 
days, and if the old oaks could but speak, many along-forgotten incident of 
those by-gone times would be recorded in the public journals and the 
archives of the city. September 10, i860, the anniversary of Perry's victory 
on Lake Erie, the event was commemorated by the unvailing of a hand- 
some monument to its hero, which stands near the southeast corner of the 
park — the sole work of art there. The inauguration of this monument was 



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made the occasion of imposing ceremonies. Commodore Perry was born 
in Rhode Island, and the governors of that State and Ohio were present, as 
were detachments of militia and Freemasons from both States, and a few 
of the surviving participants of the battle. The monument is of Italian 
marble, surmounted by an eight-foot life-like figure of Perry in the naval 
uniform of his time. Bancroft, the historian, was orator of the day, and' 
100,000 people were assembled to hear him tell the thrilling story. The 
intersection of Superior and Ontario streets in the centre of the park 
is graced on the northeast corner with a naval gun captured in the actions 
referred to ; on the southeast corner with a six-pounder field-piece brought 
home from Carrick's Ford, Virginia, by the Cleveland Light Artillery in 
1861 ; on the southwest corner with a sixty-eight-foot steel flag-staff, erected 
in 1876, and bearing the inscriptions •" The flag of our Union forever," and: 
" United we stand, divided we fall," and on the northwest corner with an 
immensely tall and graceful steel mast bearing at its summit a cluster of 
electric lights that shed a brilliant radiance all around. In the northwest 
quarter of the Square is a fine basin fountain, in the northeast quarter a well- 
arranged speakers' forum of solid sandstone, and in the southwest quarter a 
rustic fountain, a mimic water-fall, a bridge, a shrubbery-fringed basin, and 
next to the Superior street sidewalk a drinking fountain. Benches are 
placed here and there for the convenience of weary pedestrians, but are- 
monopolized for the most part by disreputable-looking idlers. On the whole 
Monumental park is the most popular place in the city during the hot 
months. 

Lake View park extends along the lake front from Seneca to Erie streets, and 
will eventually become a very attractive place. The locality was originally 
a gully-indented bluff, but has been transformed by good taste and much 
labor into a lovely resort, terraced, provided with paths and drives, planted 
with trees and shrubbery, and beautified with flowers in season. The broad,- 
level promenade overlooking the park commands also an 'unobstructed, 
view of the harbor, Lake Erie, the Union depot and a maze of railway tracks.. 
A pleasanter place for a sunrise or sunset stroll would be difficult to find. 

The West Side Circle ^on Franklin street, the common centre from which 
radiate several thoroughfares, receives considerable attention from the Park 
commission, under whose direction - it has been laid out with much taste,, 
sodded, planted with trees, shrubbery and flowers, provided with a fine rustic 
fountain and band pavilion, and otherwise improved and beautified. 

Wade park is the pride of all Clevelanders. It lies in the East end, some 
five miles from the Public square, and is reached by Euclid avenue, Prospect 
and other streets. It contains sixteen acres of hill, vale, ravine, wooded up- 
land, lake, running stream, inclosed deer preserve, smooth road and path, and 1 
in the course of time will be one of the Forest City's greatest attractions. The 
land was a present from the famous electrician, J. H. Wade, whose name will 



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be perpetuated much more pleasantly and permanently through this munificent 
gift than it could ever have been by carved bronze or sculptured marble. 

The cemeteries are numerous and well kept, as follows : Erie Street Cemetery, 
donated by the Connecticut Land Company in 1808, ten and a quarter acres, 
fronting on Erie and Erownell streets. Here, under the umbrageous shade of 
trees, many of which were planted by their own hands, lies the dust of the 
city's pioneers. Few burials have taken place here for some years, and no 
doubt those who now sleep here will ere long be removed to quieter resting- 
places in the suburbs, and the cemetery transformed into a park or sold for 
building lots. 

Woodland Cemetery comprises sixty acres on Woodland avenue, between 
Giddings and Cemetery avenues. It belongs to the city, and was laid out in 
185 1. Beautiful landscape work, serpentine paths, elegant vaults, a handsome 
pavilion and numerous imposing tombs and monuments are the principal 
features. 

Riverside Cemetery belongs to a corporation, comprises 102 acres, and is 
comparatively new. It embraces several miniature lakes, and is provided with 
waiting rooms, chapel, receiving vault, etc. This cemetery is situated on Scran- 
ton avenue, three miles from the Public Square. 

The Monroe Street Cemetery is on the West Side, fronting on Monroe, be- 
tween Green and Jersey streets, spacious, neat and well appointed. 

The Catholic Cemetery, large and beautiful, is on Woodland avenue between 
Giddings avenue and Geneva street. St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery is at Burton 
street and Clark avenue. Other cemeteries are the North Brooklyn Protestant, 
Jewish, Hungarian Aid, Polish, etc. 

The greatest of all Cleveland's cemeteries, however, is Lake View, six miles 
from the Public Square, at the terminus of Euclid avenue. It comprises a tract 
of some 300 acres of hill and valley, much of it covered with original forest, 
interspersed with lakes and provided with romantic drives and walks. On the 
loftiest point stands the fine monument to the late President Garfield, illustrated 
in this work, commanding a view for many miles of city and country and the 
broad blue bosom of Lake Erie. 

The public buildings of Cleveland, while not numerous, are commodious and 
handsome. The most conspicuous is the City Hall (illustrated), located at 
Wood and Superior streets; the United States post-office and custom-house, 
northeast corner of Superior street and Public Square ; the county court-house, 
corner Seneca and Frankfort streets ; Case Library building, northwest corner 
Wood and Superior streets ; the Historical Society's building, northeast corner 
of Public Square ; the Public Library, Euclid avenue near Erie street ; Music 
Hall, Vincent street between Bond and Erie, and some others of lesser note. 

In point of church facilities few cities make a better showing than Cleveland. 
Of church buildings there are 169, distributed as follows : Roman Catholic, 
24; Methodist, 20; Presbyterian, 12; United Presbyterian, 2; Baptist, 15; Dis- 
ciples, 4; Congregational, 13; Reformed, 4; Evangelical Associated, 8; Evan- 



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gelical Lutheran, 9; Evangelical Reformed, 7; Evangelical Independent, 1; 
Evangelical United, 8; Hebrew, 9; Quaker, 1; Unitarian, 1; United Brethren, 
2; Swedenborgian, 1; Spiritualistic, 3; unclassified, 11. There are also eight 
Catholic convents, and several new church buildings are in course of construc- 
tion. Some of the places of worship enumerated rank with the most imposing 
examples of ecclesiastical architecture in this country, and all are handsome 
and attractive. 

The dramatic temples of the first class are four in number— the Opera-house, 
Gus. Hartz, manager, corner of Euclid avenue and Sheriff street ; the Park 
Theater, north side of Monumental square, the veteran John Ellsler, manager ; 
the Cleveland Theater, St. Clair street near Ontario ; and the Columbia Theater, 
Euclid avenue, between Bond and Erie streets. 

In connection with the educational advantages of Cleveland the libraries of 
a public character are not to be overlooked. The most important of these with 
reference to the people generally is the Cleveland Public Library, occupying, in 
common with the Board of Education, a commodious building on Euclid avenue 
near Erie street. It is supported by a percentage of the school tax and muni- 
cipal fines — a fund which is sufficient to keep up repairs, pay salaries and make 
constant additions to the list of books, the catalogue showing at this time over 
50,000 volumes, ranging from standard fiction through all the intervening fields 
to the domain of history and the sciences. The Magazine of Western History 
has, in its November number, a review of the rise and growth of this library, 
established by the Board of Education, under the provisions of an act passed 
by the Legislature in March, 1867, which authorized the levy of 1-10 of a mill 
for library purposes. The nucleus of the library was the collection of books 
forming the library of the schools in the East high school. It was open for 
two hours of each Saturday afternoon during the school year of forty weeks, but 
was very little used except by the pupils of the schools, owing to the limited 
time allowed for drawing, and to the mistaken impression prevailing that it was 
simply a collection of children's books ; but the first report of the librarian de- 
scribes them as too abstruse and formally didactic to interest the young people, 
for whom they were intended. The collection was supposed to contain 2,300 
volumes, but only about 2,200 volumes were actually transferred to the Public 
Library. In September, 1868, a room 20 x 80 feet in size, on the third floor of 
the Northrop & Harrington block on Superior street, was rented, book-cases 
and other furniture procured, the room fitted up, and a number of new books, 
variously reported at 3,600 to 4,000, were purchased. It was dedicated to the 
public on the evening of March 17, 1869. Addresses were by Mr. Edwin R. 
Perkins, Rev. Anson Smyth, H. S. Stevens, Mayor Buhrer and W. H. Price, 
who had been president of the Board of Education when the statute establish- 
ing the library was enacted, and was instrumental in securing its passage. 
In 1873 tne library was removed to the larger rooms in the Clark block on 
Superior street, and in April, 1879, to its present quarters. The growth of the 
library has been steady from year to year until it has now over 51,000 volumes. 



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The circulating department numbers more than 34,000 volumes. It covers a 
wide range of subjects, and the selections have been made with the intention 
of fairly representing each department of literature. Possibly biography and 
history have received somewhat more attention than other classes, and the 
mechanic arts somewhat less than might be expected in a city so largely engaged 
in manufacturing as Cleveland. The purchases of books from year to year 
have reflected the opinions of the various book committees, and with some 
fluctuations have shown a tendency to draw the line higher up and to buy less, 
of the lighter fiction. 

The city is indebted to William and Leonard Case for the superb library and 
building that bears their names — the latter one of the most extensive, complete 
and valuable in the West. William Case gave the Young Men's Literary Asso- 
ciation, under whose auspices the institution had got its charter in 1848, a per- 
petual lease of the rooms it occupies, and which he had specially designed for 
the purpose. In 1870 Leonard Case endowed the association to the extent of 
$25,000, and in 1876 presented to it the building at Wood and Superior streets 
— a truly royal gift. The library, consisting to an unusual -degree of the most 
valuable books of solid instruction, comprises between 18,000 and 19,000. 
volumes. 

The Cleveland Law Library, established 187 1, occupies quarters in 
the court-house, is sustained by the Law Library Association, and is free to the 
profession. It is one of the most comprehensive and valuable collections of 
legal authorities extant. 

Possessed of an -endowment fund of $10,000 and a handsome and com- 
modious building, the Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical 
Society, founded in 1866, is a useful and flourishing institution. Its 
museum of historical and aboriginal remains is very large and interesting, in ad- 
dition to which it offers to the student vast resources of historical books and 
manuscripts of the rarest and most valuable kind, relating principally to the 
men and events of the earlier part of this century as affecting the settlement 
and development of the Western Reserve and adjacent country. 

The Kirtland Society of Natural Sciences is collateral and auxiliary to the 
Cleveland Library Association. Incorporated June 1, 1869, to promote the 
study of natural science and the establishment of a museum of natural history, 
it is free to all. A superb library of the character intimated and fine collec- 
tions of stuffed and mounted specimens comprise the attractions. The society 
was named for its first president, Dr. J. P. Kirtland. 

ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS. 

Benevolence and charity are among the brightest and most active of this peo- 
ple's virtues, as is attested by the number and extent of the public institutions 
devoted to the alleviation of distress. The Northern Ohio Hospital for the In- 
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with ample accommodations for six hundred or more patients, neatly and com- 
fortably arranged, commodious, quiet, and humanely conducted. The district 
from which patients are admitted comprises Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbia, Cuy. 
ahoga, Geauga, Holmes, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Pottage, Stark, Sum- 
mit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties, and the hospital is usually pretty 
well filled. ... On Perry, between Marion and Garden streets, is the Charity Hos- 
pital, conducted by the Catholic Sisters of Charity — an unpretentious but capa- 
cious edifice, self-sustaining and open to patients of any creed or nationality. 
Pay patients are also received and cared for. Weekly clinics for the benefit of 
Wooster University students are held here and lectures delivered. . . . The Cleve- 
land City Hospital, of stone, three stories in height and of extensive area, sur- 
rounded by five acres of beautiful grounds, stands on the bluff at the foot of Erie 
street, commanding a fine view of the lake. It is in charge of the faculty of the 
medical department of the Western Reserve University, and is supported by pay 
patients and free contributions. This institution was formerly the United States 
Marine Hospital. . . . The City Infirmary, Scranton avenue, south of Holmden, 
is conducted by a superintendent acting under instructions from the board of 
directors of the Infirmary Department. This institution is designed for the 
relief of the very poor. The superintendent's report shows receipts for the year 
to December 31, 1886, $91,069.12 ; expenditures, $70,955.77 ; balance to 
credit of fund, $20,113.35. During the year 1,686 persons received outdoor 
relief in groceries, meat, coal, railroad tickets, etc. ; 150 paupers were 
buried and 55 children's coffins supplied, 2,536 families visited, and 2,700 work 
orders issued. The institution, including insane, hospital and middle depart- 
ments, is said to be the best conducted of the kind in Ohio. Two new wings 
were built last year at a cost of $39,025.79, each 24 x 126 feet, and with com- 
bined accommodations for 150 patients. Further enlargement is urgently 
needed. Inmates January 1, 1887, 455. . . . "The Retreat,''" located on East 
St. Clair street, is under the management of the Women's Christian Association. 
It is a large and conveniently arranged home for fallen women, where, sur- 
rounded by redeeming influences, they may have opportunity and encourage- 
ment to reform and ultimately become once more worthy members of society. 
Here are provided a hospital ward, chapel, sitting-room, work-room, bath, 
library, and most of the comforts of a home : Good example, moral teaching 
and Christian charity spread over them the mantle of protection while pointing 
to the star of hope. From forty to fifty applicants per month are admitted, and 
many provided with good homes. . . . The Homoeopathic (Huron street) 
Hospital, a fine new building, is located on Huron street between Sheriff and 
Erie, and is largely patronized by pay patients, though large numbers of the 
helpless poor are cared for. Regular clinics are held here for the instruction 
of students of the Cleveland Homoeopathic College. . . . The remaining hos- 
pitals are the Cleveland Hospital for Women and Children ; the House of 
Maternity, Marion street, east of Perry; and St. Alexis Hospital, No. 1507 
Broadway, conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis. . . . Many other charita- 
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ble and reiief institutions are found in various parts of the city, viz : The 
Protestant Orphan Asylum, on St. Clair street, near Willson ; Jewish Orphan 
Asylum (a fine new institution) Woodland near Sawtell avenue ; Homes for 
Aged Women and Aged Poor, Perry street ; Trinity Church Home and Chil- 
dren's Home of Trinity Church, Scovill avenue ; St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, 
Woodland avenue ; Home of the Good Shepherd, Flower Mission, Bethel 
Home, Newsboys' and Boot-blacks' Home, and others. 

HOTELS. 

The hotels of Cleveland are numerous, and several are of the first class. 
The most extensive and prominent are the Hollenden, corner Superior and Bond 
streets, not yet completed (of which we present an engraving and description 
elsewhere), and the Stillman, Euclid avenue above Erie street, also illustrated 
on another page. 

STREET RAILWAYS. 

The street railway system is one of the most complete in the United States, 
and is undergoing constant extensions, thus enabling merchants and their clerks 
and salesmen, mechanics and others to reside in their own homes (for Cleveland 
is a city of homes) at considerable distances from their places of business or em- 
ployment, which are easily reached without loss of time. The nucleus of all the 
lines is on Superior street from Monumental square to Water street, whence they 
radiate in every direction. These lines at present are nine in number, with sev- 
eral others in course of construction. 

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 

Besides the numerous public buildings of which the city boasts, vast sums 
have been expended upon other works of a public character, the most important 
of which are the streets, bridges and viaducts. Most of the first on which there 
is any considerable traffic are well paved with stone and kept in moderate 
repair, though but little can be said for their cleanliness. Of bridges across the 
Cuyahoga there are some twenty-one, nine of which, designed for the use of 
teams and pedestrians, are of the ordinary swing or draw pattern, supplemented 
by twelve railroad draw-bridges and some forty stationary bridges for all purposes 
over smaller streams and ravines. The greatest finished work of this character 
is the viaduct, extending from Superior and River streets on the East Side to 
the top of the hill on the West Side, a distance of 3,211 feet. The work was 
begun in October, 1874, opened for traffic December 27, 1878, and is con- 
structed of Berea sandstone and iron at a total cost of $2,225,000. The width 
of the viaduct proper is sixty-four feet ; of pivot span of draw-bridge, forty-six 
feet ; height above low-water mark, sixty-eight feet. The latter is operated by a 
50-horse power engine and opened or closed in one minute. West of the bridge 
are ten vast arches, and ithe structure contains 80,500 perches of masonry. 



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Double roadways and double street railway tracks extend the entire length 
of the aqueduct The Kingsbury Run viaduct, 96 feet from the foun- 
dation to roadway and 854! feet in length, was completed in 1885 The 

Central viaduct, which is to extend from Ohio street on the East Side to Jen- 
nings avenue on the South Side, and thence to Abbey street on the West Side, 
will be completed next year and cost $1,000,000. Total length, 5,360 feet ; 
width, 50 feet ; height above river, 100 feet, with double street railway track, 

double roadway and sidewalks The Pearl street viaduct over Walworth 

run, rebuilt last year, is a substantial structure of wrought iron and steel, with a 
40-foot roadway and two 8-foot sidewalks. 

The subjoined table gives a summary of the cost of work done under super- 
vision of the City Engineer for 1886 : 



Items. 


Cost. 


Street grading, curbing and graveling 


$ 162,713 02 
26,944 63 
114,196 22 
546,870 00 


Total 


$ 850,723 87 


Miscellaneous work » under contract, showing approximate cost to 


$ 452,001 13 



Up to January 1 there were within the city limits 60 7-10 miles of street 
pavements of all kinds, of which 44 8-10 miles were paved entirely with Me- 
dina sandstone ; 6 6-10 miles with wood and Medina sandstone ; 1 1-10 miles 
with Abbott's concrete and Medina sandstone combined'; 3 2-10 miles with 
wood entire, and 5 miles with macadam. 



CITY FINANCES. 

The report of the City Auditor for 1886 shows a most satisfactory condition 
of the finances. The resources for 1886 were $3,427,276.71 ; disbursements, 
$3,178,770.98 ; balance on hand January 1, $248,504.73. The levy for 1885 
was fourteen and seven-twentieths mills on a total valuation of $88,285,845 ; 
yield, $1,266,901.88 ; levy for 1886, thirteen and three-twentieths mills on a 
valuation of $91,084,406; yield, $1,197,759.93 ; total decrease, $69,141.95. 
The sinking funds of the city are three in number — that of 1862, from the sale 
of railroad, water-works and bridge bonds, $1,011,000 ; the viaduct of $636,878. 
05, cash receipts sinking fund for 1886, $57,938.83, disbursements $767.03, and 
the general sinking fund, cash receipts $108,065, disbursements $103,000. In 
all, the sinking fund of 1862 has discharged liabilities of the city to the amount 
of $1,905,155.47, and still has total assets of $1,090,069.82. Total city debt 
January i, 1887, $8,195,842.51. 



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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
Probably no community in the world has better cause to congratulate itself 
upon its school system than that of Cleveland. So perfect is it, indeed, as to have 
become famous throughout the land — a synonym for what is most desirable and 
effective in. the early training and instruction of those to whose hands must some 
day be committed the political liberties and material prosperity of the State and the 
Nation. The Clerk of the Board of Education and Superintendent report as follows: 



RECEIPTS. 

Balance on hand September i, 1886 $ 78,064 87 

State tax '. . 93,809 45 

Irreducible school fund 5, 201 68 

District tax for school purposes 537,084 35 

Fines, licenses, tuition of non-resident pupils and other miscellaneous sources . . 8,397 97 



Total receipts $722,558 32 

EXPENDITURES. 

Whole amount paid to teachers (elementary, $363,663.02; high, $42,472) . . . .$406,135 02 

Supervision, exclusive of teaching service •. . 12,496 60 

Amount paid for sites and buildings 53,184 46 

Interest or redemption of bonds 23,618 93 

Fuel and other contingent expenses 114,881 16 



Total expenses $610,316 17 

Balance on hand September I, 1887 $112,242 15 



There are forty-eight school-houses in the Cleveland school district, with 598 
school rooms. There are 653 teachers employed, thirty-five of whom are men 
and 618 women. The average wages paid to male teachers is $105 a month 
and $59.77 to women. The salary of the Superintendent is $3,300 ; the super- 
visor of the grammar grade, $2,500; supervisor of the primary grades, $1,800, 
and assistant $1,600 ; supervisor of the German department, $1,700. 

The following will show the number of scholars in each branch of study : Or- 
thography, reading, writing and arithmetic, 29,520; geography, 13,639 ; English 
grammar, 3,186 ; composition, 29,520 ; United States history, 9,003 ; general 
history, 106; drawing and vocal music, 29,520; physical geography, 610; 
physics, 443 ; physiology, 403 ; algebra, 908 ; geometry, 735 ; trigonometry, 238 ; 
literature, 67 ; chemistry, 320 ; German, 12,733 > rhetoric, 67 ; science of gov- 
ernment, 279; Latin, 840; Greek, 61. The number of scholars enrolled dur- 
ing the year was 31,138, of which 29,5,20 were in the elementary schools and 
1,618 in the high schools. The boys in the elementary schools number 15,028, 
girls 14,402. In the high schools there are 540 boys and 1,078 girls. 

The enumeration of youths between the ages of 6 and 21 years was 61,654; 
per cent, of the enrollment on the enumeration, 41 ; cost per pupil for the year, 
expenditures based on the total enrollment, $13.44; cost of tuition per pupil, 
based on the average daily attendance, $17.49; cost of tuition per pupil in 
average daily attendance in the high schools, $35.13. 

The number of boys withdrawn from the high school during the year was 131 ; 
girls, 209. Total, 340; leaving 409 boys ; 765 girls. Total, 1,174. The aver- 
age age of the high school pupils the first year was 15 years. The average age 
of the graduating class was : boys, 17.3 ; girls, 18 years. 



CITY GOVERNMENT. 



THE municipal government of Cleveland, with offices in the City Hall, com- 
prises a Mayor and Common Council, composed of Board of Aldermen and 
Board of Councilmen. The city is divided into three aldermanic districts 
and forty wards. The First district has five aldermen, the Second five, and 
the Third five, and each ward is entitled to one councilman. Hon. Brenton D. 
Babcock is Mayor — term from April 16, 1887, to April 16, 1889 ; Sam. Briggs, 
Mayor's secretary. James Lawrence president, and Chas. P. Salen clerk of 
Common Council; members ex-officio — the Mayor, City Auditor J. L. Athey, 
City Solicitor Allan T. Brinsmade, City Civil Engineer Walter Rice. James 
Lawrence is also president and John Fitzer vice-president of the Board of Aider- 
men ; Wm. M. Bayne president and Robert Simpson vice-president of Board of 
Councilmen. Heads of departments — Executive, Mayor Babcock ; law, City 
Solicitor Allan T. Brinsmade ; auditor, J. L. Athey ; city clerk, Chas. P. Salen ; 
treasurer, Thomas Axworthy; street commissioner, Frank Buettner. The boards 
are — improvements, police commissioners, fire commissioners, of each of which 
the Mayor is president ; park commissioners, water-works trustees, directors of 
house of correction, infirmary board, cemetery trustees, sinking fund commis- 
sioners, boards of elections, hospital commissioners, equalization and revision, 
tax commission, assessors, health, and markets. 

POLICE DEPARTMENT. 

The Police Department comprises a judge, prosecuting attorney, assistant 
prosecuting attorney, clerk and two deputies, superintendent and deputy, four 
captains, fifteen lieutenants, ten sergeants and seven acting sergeants, nine 
detectives, one hundred and eighty-two patrolmen, two doormen and four janitors. 
There are nine station-houses, two patrol stations, fifty-one patrol boxes, and two 
patrol wagons with teams. The department is provided with telephone and tele- 
graphic apparatus and wires, and, on the whole, is in pretty fair shape. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

The Fire Department, controlled by a board of commissioners, is first-class, 
the men, machinery, horses and appliances being selected with special reference 
to efficiency. The chief, James W. Dickinson, is an old, experienced practical 



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fireman, destitute of nonsense, fuss, feathers and pretense, and his assistants are 
of the same stamp. The force consists of one chief, four assistants, secretary, 
superintendent of machinery, 20 captains, 21 lieutenants, 15 engineers, 15 
assistant engineers, 93 firemen, four telegraph operators, two linemen, one har- 
ness-maker and one veterinary surgeon. The apparatus comprises eighty horses, 
seventeen fine steamers and hose reels, three chemical engines, five hook and 
ladder trucks and equipment, two reserve trucks, one large and powerful fire- 
boat for harbor service, 18,000 feet of hose, a complete electric fire alarm sys- 
tem, and over 200 alarm boxes scattered throughout the city. The cost of the 
department for 1886 was $222,706.14; fires, 653; losses, $105,879.39. Total 
insurance, $1,468,585. The best protected district is at present the flats, while 
a large portion of the manufacturing district is in want of more engines. The 
underwriters at one time paid for maintaining an insurance patrol, but this 
service was discontinued more than ten years ago. The following list of fire 
losses and insurance may be of interest in this connection : 



Year. 



1854.. 
1855.. 
1856.. 
1857.. 
1858.. 
1859.. 
I860.. 
1861.. 
1862. 
1863.. 
1864.. 
1865. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1869. 
1870. 
1871. 
1872. 
1873. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1877. 
1878. 
1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
1882. 
1883. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 



Losses. 




$ 302,724 76 


46 




96,008 68 


53 


$ 72,140 00 


115,342 40 


48 


4,8S0 00 


88,765 55 


54 


66,250 00 
63,250 00 


29,050 83 


38 


55,903 50 


56 


86,400 00 


35,506 80 


50 


14,626 89 


102,045 50 


62 


1 


87,150 28 


48 


*Np 


96,008 68 


41 


| Record. 


115,360 50 


72 


) 


261,341 48 


68 


193,025 00 


173,990 62 


56 


221,250 00 


206,902 83 


111 


262,050 00 


300,451 76 


144 


366,650 00 


196,985 19 


196 


277,071 00 


378,635 61 


213 


437,050 00 


300,453 71 


199 


535,110 00 


309,725 22 


176 


263,950 00 


348,410 64 


186 


425,450 00 


641,504 37 


285 


915,810 00 


137,122 66 


284 


545,800 00 


253,558 75 


274 


543,250 00 
336,000 00 


25,910 00 


320 


207,836 95 


266 


612,887 00 


215,357 96 


294 


455,532 00 


268,799 58 


305 


700,310 00 


365,400 58 


479 


856,599 44 


364,646 08 


447 


1,543,469 00 


502,449 92 


442 


1,383,102 00 


1,422,861 84 


537 


1,990,730 00 


429,241 73 


574 


1,657,181 00 


510,879 39 


653 


! 1,468,585 00 



Insurance. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVEIAND. 



TOTAL VALUE OF PROPERTY. 

During the year ending May i, 1887, the fifty-three firms composing the board 
of underwriters, and representing fire and marine insurance, received by way of 
premiums about $900,000, representing values of $80,000,000. This amount, it is 
agreed by insurance men, shows less than one-half of the property to be insured, 
so that a low estimate of all the property that might be insured gives a value of 
$160,000,000. Good judges of land say that a valuation of that commodity at 
$100,000,000 is moderate and an aggregate of $275,000,000 would more nearly 
represent the wealth of Cleveland than the present tax duplicate of a little more 
than $90,000,000, especially since the investments in iron manufactures, in the 
oil and lumber business and the deposits in savings banks together almost reach 
the sum shown by the duplicate. Of the $900,000 taken out of the city by way 
of premiums, about $225,000 was returned in the form of commissions. The 
marine insurance was about one-ninth of the total, while Ohio companies received 
about $35,000 in premiums, leaving the remainder to foreign companies and 
corporations. 

COUNTY COURT-HOUSE. 

This fine building, corner of Frankfort and Seneca streets, is devoted to the 
county and State courts and to the offices of the county officials, as follows : 
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and his deputies, Master Commissioner, 
Sheriff and deputies, Probate Judge and deputy, Probate Court clerks, County 
Treasurer and deputies, County Recorder and deputy, County Clerk, County 
Auditor, Prosecuting Attorney and assistants, County Surveyor and assistants, 
Coroner, Commissioner of Insolvents, County Commissioners, Board of County 
School Examiners, and Board of Equalization. 

GOVERNMENT BUILDING. 

The handsome and commodious Federal edifice at the northeast corner of 
Monumental Square and Superior street is occupied by the United States Cir- 
cuit and District courts, the District Attorney, Assistant United States Attorney, 
United States Marshal and deputy, United States Commissioners, Register in 
Bankruptcy, Examiners in Chancery ; Treasury Department (Chas. H. Lapp, 
special agent), Custom-house, Internal Revenue Department and Post-office. 

FRATERNAL SOCIETIES. 

In nothing is the social and benevolent spirit of the people of Cleveland so 
well shown as in the number and large membership of its secret and beneficent 
fraternities. Of these there are in the city, of A. F. and A. M., ten blue lodges, 
four Royal Arch chapters, one council Royal and Select Masters, three com- 
manderies K. of P., and of the Scottish Rite, one chapter S. P. of Rose Croix 
de H. R. M., one grand council Princes of Jerusalem, one grand lodge of per- 
fection. Masonic Temple, northeast corner Superior and Bond streets. The 



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A. F. and A. M. also control the West Side Masonic Hall Association, the Ma- 
sonic Mutual Life Association, Masonic Relief Association, Masonic Temple 
Association, and Western Reserve Masonic Mutual Insurance Association. Of 
•Cuneau Masons there are one chapter S. P. of Rose Croix H. D. R. M., one 
council Knights of Kadash, one grandcouncil Princes of Jerusalem, and one Grand 
Lodge of Perfection ; and of negro Masons, three lodges, two chapters R. A. M., 
two commanderies K. T. and one chapter Rose Croix de H. D. R. M., Scottish 
Rite. 

Of Odd Fellows there are fourteen lodges, three encampments, three cantons 
Uniformed Rank, three lodges Rebekah Degree, four councils (colored) G. U. 
•O. O. F., and one lodge Daughters of Ruth. 

Of Knights of Pythias there are ten lodges, five cantons of the Uniformed, 
and three sections of the Endowment rank. This order also supports a gen- 
eral relief committee. 

The patriotic organizations are strong, the G. A. R. having an officers' council 
for the county and nine flourishing posts, to seven of which are attached ladies' 
relief corps. The Union Veterans' Union is representented by one command, 
and the national headquarters of the Woman's Veteran Relief Union, an 
•auxiliary organization, is also located here. Headquarters for Ohio and three 
camps of the Sons of Veterans give promise that their fathers' deeds will not be 
forgotten. 

The Ancient and the Independent Orders of Foresters, with their collateral 
branches, are quite numerous. 

Of the Ancient Order of United Workmen there are eight lodges and one 
legion Select Knights ; eight councils Royal Arcanum ; six lodges Knights of 
Honor ; four lodges Knights and Ladies of Honor j three tents Knights of 
Maccabees ; one lodge United Order of Honor; Advisory Board of Cleveland, 
:Sick Benefit League of Ohio, and sixteen councils Chosen Friends ; eight 
branches of the Iron Hall ; five unions of Equitable Aid Union ; three com- 
manderies Order of the Red Cross ; one clan Order of Scottish Clans ; two 
lodges Order of Golden Chain ; two lodges of Daughters and five of Sons of St. 
•George ; ten tribes, two encampments and one endowment association Inde- 
pendent Order of Red Men ; five councils National Union ; two lodges and one 
encampment Ancient Order of Good Fellows ; one arch chapter and two groves 
Druids ; eight lodges D. O. Harugari ; four lodges Independent Order Sons of 
Benjamin ; four lodges Kesner Shil Barzel; two lodges Independent Order B'nai 
B'rith ; one lodge Order B'nai Abraham ; two lodges Independent Free Sons of 
Israel ; one lodge Improved Free Sons of Israel ; two lodges Loyal Orangemen ; 
one preceptory Royal Black Knights of Ireland; District Assembly 47 and 
forty-five subordinate assemblies Knights of Labor ; eight divisions Ancient 
•Order of Hibernians ; two branches Emerald Beneficial Association ; thirteen 
legions and assemblies Knights of St. John; two councils Catholic Benevolent 
Legion ; Grand Council and nine branches Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa- 
tion ; numerous ladies' temperance unions, societies, branches, etc. ; four 
lodges Good Templars, one council Royal Templars; headquarters and two 
•divisions Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a great variety of other 
organizations formed for a diversity of purposes, social, beneficent, musical, 
literary, religious, military, political, professional, mercantile, manufacturing and 
►commercial. 



BANKS AND BANKING. 



THE Cleveland Clearing-house was established December 28, 1858 ; Tru- 
man P. Handy, president ; Louis Smies, secretary and cashier. All 
transactions take place in their office in the Mercantile Bank building,, 
corner Bank and Superior streets. Clearances, November 1, 1886, to 
November 1, 1887 : November $13,189,289 ; December, $13,878,651 ; 
January, $13,522,355; February, $12,514,862; March, $12,890,719 ; April, 
$ I 3> 2 79>3 6 6; May, $13,397,821; June, $14,466,939; July, $13,193,742; 
August, $13,419,194; September, $13,730,524 ; October, $14,340,059. The 
increase in valuation of business for present year will aggregate about $22,000,- 
000 over last year's receipts. This represents solid cash transactions — not paper 
transactions, as is customary in nearly all clearing-houses. 

The subjoined table shows the condition of the nine National banks, August 
1, last : 



National Bank of Commerce... 

Commercial National bank 

Mercantile National bank 

Union National bank 

First National bank 

Cleveland National bank 

Euclid Avenue National bank. 

Ohio National Bank 

National Citv bank 



Total . 



Capital. 


Surplus 
and profit. 


Discounts 
Aug. 1, '87. 


Deposits Reserve 
Aug. 1, '87. Aug. 1, '87. 


V«?lue of 
stock. 


$1,500,000 


$ 204,414 


$ 3'3 2 9.74i 


$ 2,674,326 


$ 609,386 


113 6 3 


1,000,000 


299,872 


3-5 t8 -375 


3,024,219 


755. 8 90 


129 99 


1,000.000 


153 090 


2,522,828 


2, 163,055 


5 r 3 081 


TI 5 3° 


1,000.000 


103,266 


2, 136,096 


1,562,125 


300,042 


no 33 


600,000 


38,029 


r, 018, 023 


780,820 


203,685 


106 34 


500,000 


47.671 


1,042,877 


906.722 


229.521 


109 53 


500, OOw 


36,060 


897,286 


567,169 


115,113 


107 21 


400,000 


120, 191 


1,260,306 


1,069, 146 


217,744 


130 05 


200,000 


155,806 


751 700 


765,029 


203.557 


177 90 


$6,700,000 


$1,158,395 


$r 6, 477. 238 


^13.506,641 


$3,157,019 





PRIVATE BANKS. AND BANKERS AND SAVINGS BANKS. 




Surplus. 



Undivided 
surplus. 



Broadway Savings and Loan Co '$ 50,000 

Citizens Saving and Loan Association ' 1.000,000 

East End Savings Bank Co ! 50,000 

People's Savings and Loan Association \ 100,000 

Savings and Trust Co.. 1 450,000 

Society for Savings* 

South'Cleveland Banking Co 50,000 

West Side Banking Co 50,000 

Woodland Avenue Savings and Loan Co.... 50,000 

W. J. Haves & Sons : 100,000 

Lamprecht Bros. & Co 15,000 

Charles H. Potter & Co 50,000 

Henry Wick & Co.* : 

* No statement. 



$ 3,000 
500,000 



13,973 

ii'obo 



50,000 



94.000 

53^294 
20,000 



TRADE AND COMMERCE. 



THE Cleveland Board of Trade was organized in July, 1848, with John L t 
Weatherby, president ; W. F. Allen, jr., vice-president ; Charles W. Coe, sec- 
retary ; R. T. Lyon, treasurer. By-laws were adopted, rooms secured at the 
foot of Superior street, and all preparations made,and August 10 of the same 
year the institution was inaugurated with thirty-six members. The objects of 
the association, as set forth in Article 1 of the by-laws, are to promote integrity 
and good faith, establish just and equitable principles of business, to discover and 
correct abuses, to establish and maintain uniformity in commercial usages, to 
acquire, preserve and disseminate valuable business statistics and information, 
to prevent or adjust controversies and misunderstandings which may arise be- 
tween persons engaged in trade, and generally to foster, protect, and advance the 
commercial, mercantile and manufacturing interests of the city — objects which 
have ever been pursued with singleness of purpose and marked success. The extent 
to which the Board of Trade has contributed to the nurture and development of 
the city's material interests can only be approximately estimated, but that it has 
been and continues to be the chief factor in her mercantile, commercial and 
manufacturing progress is too generally acknowledged to require demonstration. 
The city's best business talent, public spirit and patriotism are represented 
in the board, and while its past achievements ha.ve been wonderful, its greatest 
triumphs are to come. The greatest drawback to its usefulness in attracting 
hither enterprise, capital and skill, is the omission of tabulated annual reports, 
which, issued in pamphlet form and spread broadcast throughout this and other 
countries, could not but exert a powerful influence for good. The last of these 
reports, published in 1884, shows a membership of nearly two hundred, which 
has since been considerably increased by accessions from all the avenues of 
active business. 

Chartered by the Legislature April 3, 1866, the Cleveland Board of Trade 
reorganized on the fifth of the same month and became an incorporated body. 
The presiding officers from 1848 to the present time are named here, with their 
terms of service : From 1848 to 1863 inclusive, Joseph L. Weatherby ; 1864— 
65, S. F. Lester ; 1865-66, Philo Chamberlain ; 1866-67, Philo Chamberlain ; 
1867-68, W. F. Otis; 1868-69, George W. Gardner; 1869-70, R. T. Lyons; 
1870-71, A. J. Begges ; 1871-72, Thomas Walton ; 1872-73, Charles Hickox , 



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1873-74, B. H. York • 1874-75, F. H. Morse; 1875-77, H. Pomerene ; 1877- 
78, B. A. De Wolf; 1879-86, Daniel Martin. Mr. William Edwards, senior 
member of the great wholesale grocery house of Wm. Edwards & Co., occupies 
that responsible position at this time, while Mr. A. J. Begges is secretary and 
treasurer. 

The daily call, under rules, begins at 12:30 p. m., and embraces cash tran- 
sactions and options in clover and timothy seed, cash lard, pork, tallow, hay, 
potatoes ; options in potatoes ; cash butter, eggs, and options in the same ; 
cheese, cash and options ; beans and peas, cash; apples, cash and options; 
cash foreign fruits and nuts, dried fruits, onions, cranberries ; cash and options 
in miscellaneous articles, and cash and options in wheat, corn, oats, rye and 
barley. 

The exports and imports of Cleveland, 1873 t0 IO "86 inclusive, as taken 
from the custom-house records, to gether with entries and clearances of ves- 
sels at this port for the same period, procured from the same source, are 
presented below. The footings for 1887 are not complete when we go to press, 
which will account for the omission of later statistics. 



EXPORTS, IMPORTS, ENTRIES AND CLEARANCES AT PORT OF 
CLEVELAND, 1873 to 1886, INCLUSIVE. 



Year 



1873 
1874 

1875 
1876 
.1877 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 



Goods 
entered 
valuation. 



$21,052,074 
22,528,982 
13, 106,592 
15.023.570 
28,585,440 

3 1 >76S>3 1 9 
46,465,260 

54.754.467 
61,921,552 
54,480,006 
51,548,396 

43-8r5.o53 
(not stated) 
47,628,567 



Goods t-* 
, , i^xports 
cleared 1 - v - 



valuation. 



valuation. 



$31,652,016$!, 
25,262,796 
50,464,402 
21,125.000 1 
37,029,147 
33.528,330 
33,090,598 
36, 142,898 . . 
37,023,2101 
36,449,853 
36,923,207: 
35,416,638! 

27.3 l8 -454 
36,139,580; 



486, 
856, 
840 
227 
828 
980 
39 2 



Imports 
valuation. 



976 $i 
950 
797 
3 2 9 
579 
37i 
722 . 
..• I. 



,014.363 

557.934 
781,869 
375,000 
454. 227 
16^,880 



552 
586 
952 
485 
289 

156 



161 
207 
633 
783 
490 
107 



726,738 

440,354 
458,696 

571-144 
456,698 
593,220 



Vessels entered. 



58.043 
44.356 
31.417 
109,632 

58.967 



625 
5*o 
469 
214 
292 



378 



134.733 
101,806 
104,768 
48,883 
72,047 



82 324 



53. x 76 
53. 2 94 



43.877 
61 ,742 



Vessels cleared. 



35o 



45-223 
38,317 
I 9-539 
123,809 
109,246 



194 



125,181 
105. *55 
97-319 
52,897 
58,940 



50,228 
59.234 



221 45,823 
244 60,119 



The blanks in the foregoing table indicate absence of official records. The 
total imports for the first quarter of 1887 were valued at $214,205 ; duties paid, 
$93,663.84. The proportionate increase during the second and third quarters 
was very considerable, and for the entire year will exceed those of 1886 by at 
least fifty per cent. This is the great entrepot for Lake Superior and Canadian 
iron ores and copper. In 1886 there were received in Cleveland and at lake 
ports tributary to Cleveland 2,084,717 tons of iron ore, or nearly 60 per cent, 
of the entire Lake Superior output, the value of which on the docks here was in 
round figures $12,500,000. It is the most central meeting point for the rich 



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37 



iron ores of Lake Superior, the celebrated coke from Connellsville, Pa., and the 
limestone of Kelley's Island and vicinity, thus affording unusual facilities for 
iron smelting. Cleveland is the great receiving point for coal from the Mahon- 
ing, Shenango, Tuscarawas, Hocking, Connotton and adjacent valleys. In 1886 
2,000,000 tons of bituminous coal were received here, 600,000 tons of which 
were shipped by lake. 

BOARD OF INDUSTRY. 

January 19, 1887, a meeting of citizens representing the various manufactur- 
ing and commercial interests of the city was called at the Board of Trade rooms 
for the purpose of organizing and furthering the interests of the city as a manu- 
facturing centre. On the twenty-sixth of February another meeting was held,, 
with Lee McBride as chairman, and a permanent organization effected, to be 
known as the Cleveland Board of Industry and Improvement, with a member- 
ship of one hundred business men, carefully selected from the various branches 
of industry. The object of the organization is for the protection and stimula- 
tion of manufacturing industries in every form, to build up and improve the city 
as a manufacturing and commercial center, and encourage the location here of 
outside manufacturers. At the meeting of March 1 a committee, consisting of 
D. A. Dangler, H. R. Goff, T. H. Graham, C. H. Bulkley and William Ed- 
wards, was appointed for the purpose of selecting officers and preparing consti- 
tution and by-laws. On recommendation of this committee James Barnet was 
elected president ; Thomas Axworthy, vice-president ; X. X. Crum, secretary, 
and C. H. Bulkley, treasurer, and the first Saturday of each month, at 3 p. at,, 
set for regular meetings at the Board of Trade rooms. At subsequent meet- 
ings the following executive committee was selected : H. R. Goff, C. B. Lock- 
wood, Fred. Muhlhauser, Hon. Amos Townsend, H. D. Coffinberry, D. Martin, 
B. D. Babcock, Wm. Edwards, M. A. Hanna, D. A. Dangler, O. M. Stafford, 
W. J. McKinnie, Lee McBride, W. J. Gordon and Judge E. J. Blandim 
Finance committee — Wm. Chisholm, A. Weiner, S. M. Strong, T. H. Graham 
and Lewis Black. Special committee for location of manufactures and informa- 
tion— W. N. Day, chairman; S. A. Fuller, H. M. Claflen, C. W. Bingham and 
James Parker. The subject of natural gas for manufacturing purposes has been 
brought before the board, and a fund for experimental purposes established, but 
after thorough investigation gas has not been found in sufficient quantities for 
the purpose intended, and the subject and experiments in this direction were 
abandoned. Efforts have also been made by the board to increase the area of 
the shelter harbor for shipping for the port and to increase the dockage facili- 
ties. The board is now in a flourishing condition, and, having no other objects 
in view than the advancement of Cleveland's industrial and commercial inter- 
ests, cannot but exert a most beneficent and healthful influence upon her 
future. The character and standing of the gentlemen composing the organiza- 
tion is ample guarantee that under no circumstances will it ever be dragged in 
the mire of partisan politics or otherwise diverted from the lofty purposes to 
which its efforts are at present directed. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



PROBABLY no inland city enjoys so many advantages in the matter of 
railway and water facilities as does Cleveland. Her geographical posi- 
tion and manifest natural advantages long ago pointed to the certainty 
that she must become a great commercial center and attracted the 
attention of railway and ship builders. Standing midway between the 
iron and copper mines of Lake Superior and the coal fields of Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania, possessed of a fine harbor (rendered almost perfect by recent govern- 
ment improvements), with unsurpassed facilities for ship-building and the man- 
ufacture of railway equipments, her prospects for future ascendancy are of the 
brightest. 

RAILWAYS. 

Ten railroads enter here and connect Cleveland with the entire iron highway 
system of the continent. The most important of these are the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern, controlling 1,340^ miles of track, the main line extending 
from Chicago to Buffalo, 540 miles ; the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & 
Indianapolis (Bee Line) from Cleveland to Cincinnati, comprising the Columbus 
division, Cincinnati division and Indianapolis division, the Cincinnati & Spring- 
field, Mt. Gilead Short Line, and Indianapolis & St. Louis railways, in all 738^ 
miles ; the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio (Nypano), 573 miles ; the New 
York, Chicago & St. Louis, 523 miles ; the Cleveland & Pittsburgh, 224 miles ; 
Cleveland & Mahoning VaJUey, 137^5 miles ; the Valley, 82 miles ; the Cleve- 
land & Canton (Connotton Valley), 160^ miles ; the Cleveland Southern, and 
the Rocky River — the latter a short line to^a neighboring summer resort. Sev- 
eral of these roads — the Mahoning Valley and others — are devoted largely to 
the transportation of soft coal from the Ohio and Western Pennsylvania mines, 
vast quantities of which are consumed here and shipped by water to lake ports. 
Six of these roads took out from Cleveland in 1886, 3,453,726 tons of freight, 
their Cleveland freight revenues aggregating $3,042,624.81. The following 
additional roads have direct running arrangements into Cleveland : Cleveland, 
Akron & Columbus ; Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling j Pittsburgh, Cleveland & 
Toledo ; Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, and Cleveland & Marietta. 



40 



THE INDUSTRIES OE CLEVELAND. 



WATER TRANSPORTATION. 

x\s before intimated, the ship-building interests of Cleveland rank above those 
of any American inland port. There are eight shipyards here, two of which — 
that of the Globe Iron Works and that of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company,, 
described and illustrated elsewhere in this work — are of colossal proportions, 
and give attention exclusively to the construction of steel and iron steamers. 
The others are devoted to the building and repair of wooden craft of every 
description, steam and sail, those of William H. Radcliffe and Thomas Quayle's 
Sons being the largest and most famous. 

The steamboat lines belonging to or touching at this port are thirteen in num- 
ber, as folows : The Cleveland Transportation Co., the Detroit and Cleveland 
Steam Navigation Co.. the Lake Superior Transit Co., the Western Transit Co., 
the Saginaw Transportation Co., Grummond's Mackinaw Line, Wilson's Transit 
Line, the Union Steamboat Co., Ward's Lake Superior Line, the Merchants' 
Montreal Line, the Lackawanna Green Bay Line, the Merchants' Line, and the 
Central Vermont Line. The vessels of these lines are engaged in regular 
trades, carrying freights and passengers to every port of consequence on either 
shore of the great lakes between Montreal, Buffalo and Duluth, and comprise 
most of the largest and finest craft on the "unsalted seas." The most magnifi- 
cent steamer on fresh water is the City of Cleveland^ built here and put into 
commission by the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company in the 
season of 1886. This company run one boat each way daily during the season 
between Cleveland and.Detroit and Detroitand Mackinac and intermediate points. 
. . . . The Lake Superior Transit Line, composed of twelve first-class propellers, 

carrying both passengers and freight, dispatches five vessels per week The 

Saginaw Transportation Company's boats leave twice a week, carrying passengers 

and freight The Union Steamboat Company's vessels, running between 

Chicago and Buffalo, are freighters exclusively, and touch here daily 

Propellers of the Merchants' Line depart weekly for Montreal Grum- 

mond's Mackinaw Line, weekly Ward's Lake Superior Line, five freight 

propellers, two of which carry passengers besides Western Transit Co,, 

Buffalo to Milwaukee and Chicago, propellers touch here daily Wil- 
son's Transit Line, steam freight barges, to and from Lake Superior ports. . . . 
A vast number of irregular American and English craft — freighters exclusively, 
carrying coal and iron ore for the most part — also ply the lakes and touch here 
to receive and discharge cargoes. These vessels are usually under charter. 

VESSELS OWNED IN THE DISTRICT. 

Lake shipments of iron from the mines of Lake Superior for the season, to 
date of November 16, footed up 4,332,183 gross tons. This is 937,382 tons in 
excess of the shipments last year at the corresponding date. The table given 
below shows the shipments by ports to the above date this season and for the 
corresponding period in 1886: 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



41 



Name of Port. 


1887. 


1886. 




795,784 
2,016,675 
yu,±oo 
1,040,727 

388,799 


833,044 
1,482,394 

703,947 
304,396 












Total 


4,332,183 


3,394,801 





By ranges the shipments have been as follows: Marquette range, 1,736,811 
tons; Menominee range, 1,116,832 tons; Gogebic range, 1,089,741 tons; Ver- 
million range, 388,799 tons. 

The total receipts at lake ports for the past five years were : 



Port 


1883. I 1884. 

1 


1885. 


1886. 1 1887. 

1 




27,617 2,444 
58,825 106,540 


15,000 
143,180 


26,960 61,727 
157,970 160,600 
44,021 21,288 
99,744 134,764 
1,034,650 1,216,423 
112,000 501,368 
672,000 1,103,839 
91,200 210,488 
31,869 28,699 




25,794! 30,156 
723,129; 904,850 

40,334 23,100 
670,0001 650,000 
106,787 116,027 

40,203 8,760 


13,180 
589,234 

31,992 
582,000 
122,223 
7,160 


^ Cleveland 


Erie 

Buffalo 

Totals 


l,692,689!l,841,877 


1,503,969 


2,270,554 3,439,199 



We are indebted to the Plain Dealer of July 11 last for the following table 
of iron, steel and wooden steamers and sailing craft owned in the Cuyahoga 
(Cleveland) district to that date. The aggregate shows 206 craft of all kinds 
mentioned, valued at $6,539,400 ; total gross tonnage, 123,921.41. Seven of 
the steamers are of iron and steel, with an aggregate tonnage of 10,719.72 and 
a total valuation of $983,000. The number of steam wooden boats is 87, 
the aggregate value $3,772,800, and the gross tonnage 60,031.81. The number 
of sail boats is 112, the aggregate value $1,783,600 and the gross tonnage 
53,169.88. It is more than probable that in no single channel of trade in this 
country has there been so much improvement within the past two years as in 
the commerce on the great lakes. Of the several large cities on the lakes Cleve- 
land — and Cleveland capitalists interested in the vessel property in particular — 
have received the greatest benefit. Cleveland is now far in advance of any other 
city on the lakes in the aggregate and value of tonnage. Up to a short time 
ago Buffalo, with her several lines of large freight boats, headed the list of ton- 
nage-owning ports, and the greatest number of boats, made up by small lumber 
"hookers," still hail from Chicago; but Cleveland has now more than distanced 
both of these places in the aggregate of monster carriers, valued at hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. 



3 



4U 



THE INDUSTRIES 01 CLEVELAND. 



LAKE CRAFT OWNED IN THE CUYAHOGA DISTRICT. 



IRON 
STEAMBOATS. 



Dexter 

I Cambria 

Chas. J. Sheffield 

J. H. Devereux 

Spokane 

Wm. Chisholm 

Onoko 

WOODEN 
STEAMBOATS. 

A. Everett 

American Eagle (tug) 

American Eagle 

Australasia 

Business 

Cormorant 

Charles Henry 

Constitution 

C. P. Morey ...... 

Cyclone 

Chas- E. Bolton 

City of Cleveland 

C. Tower, Jr , 

Dreadnaught 

D. Leuty 

Dragon 

Egyptian . . .' 

E. B. Hale 

Ered Kelley 

Florence 

Forest City 

Geo. R. Paige 

Geo. M. Brady 

Geo. Spencer- 

Geo. T. Hope 

H. A. Tuttle... ..... 

Helene , 

Handy Boy. 

Havana 

Henry Chisholm 

H. B. Tuttle 

Ida Sims. 

Joe Harris 

John Gordon 

John N. Glidden. . . . 

J. Amadeus 

J. J. Worswick 

J. S. Fay 

J. Pickands. 

J. H. Outhwaite 

Jim Sheriffs , 

John Gregory 

Kasota 

Keystone 

L. A. Smith 

Mag Sanborn 

Mary Pr ingle , 

Mary Virginia 

Markwell 

M. B. Grover 

Missoula 

N. B. Gates..'. 

N. K. Fairbank 

O. Townsend 

O. J. True 

Pat Henry 



Ton. 



36- 
1878 10 
1699 59 
1618 63 
1741 90 
1581 08 
2164 42 



1083 32 

34 48 
161 24 
1829 32 
985 62 
1200 00 
22 23 
96 38 

30 28 
69 72 

20 56 
1609 92 
1825 45 

31 23 
646 35 

28 49 
1429 78 
1186 15 
926 54 
11 48 
49 37 

34 34 
165 00 

1360 75 
1558 73 
1585 12 
17 35 
136 27 
1041 43 
1775 37 
844 94 
13 00 
64 24 

5i 36 
1322 60 

44 67 
11 14 
1220 75 

!545 90 
1304 06 
841 27 

75 25 
1660 84 
722 54 
39 16 

21 05 
204 66 

32 83 
11 25 

1995 90 
1926 88 

28 75 
980 30 
1037 91 

16 38 

35 35 



B'lt. 



1866 
1887 
1887 
1885 



1880 
1886 
1880 
1884 
1881 

1873 
1880 
1864 
i860 
1883 
1882 
1882 
1886 
1881 
1882 
1866 
1873 
1874 
1871 
1873 
1875 
1882 
1865 
1884 
1883 
1887 
1883 
1882 
1874 
1880 
1871 
1873 
1873 
1884 
1879 
1874 
1878 
1871 
1886 
if 
if 
if 
1884 
1880 
1869 
1874 
1867 
1880 
1885 
1887 
1877 
1887 
1874 



Val. 



$ 8000] 
185000! 
150000 
150000 
150000' 
150000 
190000 



WOODEN 
STEAMBOATS. 



75000 



5000O 
4000' 
IOOO©! 

4OOO 
72000' 
6000 
1 1 OOOO 1 
1 15000' 
8000 1 
50OOO 
7000' 
55000' 
65000 
5OOOO 
2500 
5000 
9&OO 
140OO 
95000 
IIOOOO 

I I 5000 

2500 

I IOOO 
60000 
105000 
40000 

1500 

4000 

I OOOO 

75000 
8000 
2000 
60000 
110000' 



Paddy Murphy 

Queen of the West. . . 

|Rube Richards 

Raleigh 

R. P. Ranney 

R. K. Hawley 

Robert Wallace 

Red Cloud 

Rob Roy 

R. R. Rhodes 

15000' ! S. S. Stone 

i8ooo'jStar 

ii5ooo'jS. Cham'l'n (tug) 

65000, S. E. Sheldon 

S. Mather 

Sparta 

Siberia 

Superior 

Smith Moore 

Sampson 

Tom Maytham 

Telephone , 

V. Swain 

V. H. Ketchum 

Vienna 

Wocoken 

W. H. Doan 

Wallula 

W. L. Wetmore. . . . 

W. D. Gushing. 

W. P. Thew. - .. .... 

WESTERN 
SAIL VESSELS. 

Ahira Cobb , 

Alva Bradley 

AdaE 

Andrew Walton 

Annabel Wilson 

B. H. Winnie 

Bertie Crowell 

Brunette 

Charles Wall. 

Colonel Cook 

C. L. Hutchinson. . 

C. H. Burton 

C. G. King 

Constitution 

Camden 

Columbian , 

Conrad Reed 

C. H. Johnson 

Delaware 

David Wallace 

D. P. Rhodes 

David Wagstaff 

David Dows , 

Eliza Gerlach 

E. C. Hutchinson. . . 
Edward Kelley. 

5000' ;L. Corning 

5000' E. R. Williams 

50ooo'Jf. L. Jones 

40000] .Frank Perew 

1800'jFlying Dutchman. .. . 
8ooo'|Fred A. Morse 



90000 
60000 

1 OOOO 

100000 
40000 1 
6000 
2500 

I OOOO 

. 7000 

1500 

I20OO0j 



42 41 

!i8 84 
h 5 8 7 
1205 93 
1392 49 

27 24 
1189 56 
40 37 



Ton. 



14 76 1886 



B'Jt. 



1882 
1881 
1885 
1871 
1881 

1873 

882 
882 



1576 23 1 
52 

!o 53 1 
33 60 
907 24 1 
1576 23 1 
017 19 
1618 26 

854 59 
1191 42 1880 
181 00 1866 
36 80 
J 5 44 
955 35 
1660 49 
1005 79 
1400 37 
11 58 
1924 34 
1216 75 

39 74 
188 14 



780 95 
649 18 
18 44 
372 
490 63 
16 16 
16 48 
738 64 
629 31 
266 18 
297 76 
514 9i 
457 45 
422 67 
694 17 
356 1 
288 70 
332 47 
547 69 
1088 46 

937 93 
3™ 95 
!4i8 53 
271 43 
736 77 
776 43 
832 43 
293 6 4 
112 85 
524 60 
11 26 
592 36 



887 
882 
882 
883 
872 
887 

874 
882 

873 



1880 
1880 
1874 
1874 
1873 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1 871 
1868 



Val. 



50000 
48000 
60000 
95000 

5000 
85000 

9000 

2000 
1 15000 

9000 
12000 

7000 
45000 
115000 
60000 
95000 
50000 
75000 
18000 

6500 

1500 
55ooo 
80000 
60000 
85000 

3500 

IIOOOO 

50000 
7000 
20000 



IS72 
1870 
If 
if 
1887 
1871 

i8 7 i| 
1866! 

1855' 
1866 

1873I 
1870 
1861 
1872 
1864 
i88i ! 
1870 
1868 
1884 
1871 
1863 
1881 
1867 
187Q 
1874 
1867 

1873 
1867 
1867 
1882 
1871 



27000 
25000 

IOOO 

9000 
3COOO 
800 
700 
26000 
18000 
5000 
7000 
16000 
15000 
12500 
25000 
7000 
7000 
7000 
12500 
50000 

35000 

7000 
60000 

7000 
27000 
28000 
18000 

8000 

2500 

15000 

500 

18000 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



43 



LAKE CRAFT OWNED IN THE CUYAHOGA DISTRICT— Continued. 



Ton. 



B'lt. 


Val. 


568 45 


1866 


$18000 


5 11 14 


1890 


12000 


145 23 


1867 


2500 


816 66 


1872 


35000 


764 75 


1873 


30000 


640 71 


1867 


24000 


3!8 54 


1855 


3000 


813 5° 


1872 


28000 


979 97 


1885 


50000 


67581 


1873 


25000 


885 20 


1871 


30000 


221 24 


1857 


6000 


499 9° 


1882 


23000 


447 34 


1863 


14000 


3°5 96 


1870 


7000 


311 79 


1862 


8000 


281 16 


1863 


7500 


109 02 


1867 


2000 


845 34 


1874 


32000 


292 30 


1866 


7000 


627 24 


1869 


18000 


230 76 


1863 


35oo 


241 63 


1848 


6000 


635 57 


1878 


25000 


837 74 


1873 


26000 


3i8 95 


1864 


6000 


168 51 


1876 


5000 


699 46 


1871 


25000 


9 79 


1879 


400 


208 05 


1858 


2000 


643 77 


1872 


23000 


549 9 6 


1872 


24000 


3 X 9 85 


1873 


9000 


34 26 


1868 


800 


232 83 


1872 


5000 


728 83 


1873 


28000 


20 74 


1881 


700 


19 47 


1883 


400 


1076 56 


1887 


50000 


726 50 


1867 


12500 



WESTERN 
SAIL VESSELS. 



Fayette Brown 

F. O. Barker, 

G. H. Wilmington 
Geo. W. Adams. .. 

Genoa 

Golden Fleece 

G. K. Jackson. . . . 
Gen. Franz Sigel. . 
Geo. Sherman 

H. D. Root 

H. J. Webb 

Helena 

H. P. Baldwin 

Helvetia 

H. G. Cleveland.. . 

I. N. Foster 

J. L. Quinby 

Ironton 

J. U. Porter 

J. B. Kitchen 

Joseph Paige 

J. R. Pelton 

J. G. Masten 

J. S. Austin 

]ohn O'Neil 

[ohn Tibbitts 

julia Willard 

[ames Couch 

[ohn Martin 

E. Gil more. . . . . 
"Kate Winslow. . . . 

v Kingfisher 

V Leonard Hanna. . . . 

Li'le Wis'hick'n 

M. P. Barkalow 

M. R. Warner 

M. F. Tremble 

M. O. Keys 

Monticello 

Mystic 



Ton. 



553 
3°4 
559 
1443 
73o 
45i 
400 
316 

323 
116 

43i 
863 

495 
793 
264 

3 T 9 
87 
785 
149 
287 
625 
125 
620 
300 
616 
149 
214 
843 
937 
290 

73 6 
5i7 
694 
376 
121 
699 
692 

40 
316 

15 



B'lt. 



1868 
1867 
1872 
1875 
1873 
1862 
1882 
1863 
1862 
1863 
1869 
1874 
1866 
1873 
1867 
1872 
1863 

1873 
1868 

1873 
1872 
1866 
1867 
1863 

1873 
1865 
1865 
1871 

1873 
1867 
1872 
1867 
1872 
1869 
1871 

1873 
1874 
1874 



Val. 



$18000 
8000 
24000 
45000 
26000 
15000 
17000 
6500 
6500 
3000 
r6ooo 
30000 
15000 
30000 
7000 
8000 
1200 
25000 
2000 
7000 
24000 

35°° 
21000 
12000 
22000 

3000 

4500 
27000 
35000 

6000 
20000 
12000 
25000 

35oo 

35oo 
25000 
25000 
700 

6500 
400 



WESTERN 
SAIL VESSELS. 



Maria Martin 

May Richards. . . 

N. C. West 

N. Redington. . . 

Niagara 

Negaunee 

Old Concord 

Pelican 

Polynesia 

Queen City 

Richard Winslow. 

Rival 

R. Bottsford 

Red, White, Blue. 

Reindeer 

Selkirk 

St. Lawrence. . . . 

Sassacus 

Sumatra 

Southwest 

S. P. Ely 

Sena or Blood. . . . 

Seaman 

Sophia Minch. . . . 

Sandusky 

H. Kimball... 
Theodore Voges. 
Thos. P. Sheldon . 

Two Sisters 

Transport 

Thomas Quayle. . 

Thomas Gawn 

Three Brothers. . . 

V. M. Blake 

Venus 

Verona 

Venture 

W. L. Baker 

Wadena 

Zack Chandler. . . 



The appended table, prepared by Mr. A. A. Pomeroy, editor of the Marine 
Record and marine editor of the Leader, shows the tonnage built and commis- 
sioned on the lakes for i8j$7, but does not include that under contract and un- 
finished. In 1873, when ship-building was stimulated by good times, 92,400 
tons were registered, a record never exceeded, but it is possible that it will be 
at the end of next year. One of our modern vessels, taken almost at random 
from the names presented in the table, will equal in tonnage the entire fleet of 
fifty vessels afloat on the lakes in 18 18. 

For the table of losses we are indebted to the Plain Dealer of December 5. 
It is complete up to December 1, and shows losses to the amount of 34,700 tons, 
valued at $770,700 for 1887, as compared with 23,781 tons, valued at $549,000 
for 1886. 



44 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



LAKE DISASTERS FOR 1887. 



Name. 



Descrip. 



Louie O'Neil 

George P. Heath 

Oswego 

Van Valkenberg 

Champlain 

P. H. Walters. . . : , 
George Worthington 

Theodore Perry 

City of Ashland 

Clara 

Gessine 

Niagara 

J. A. Smith 

Anglo Saxon 

Provost 

A. E. Allen 

Ole Oleson 

F. D. Barker 

City of Green Bay . . 

Havana 

C. L. Hutchinson. . . 

California 

Orient 

Pulaski 

Venus 

Jesse Scarth 

Albion 

L. Hanna 

Manzanilla 

Riverside 

Clinton 

C. O. D 

James F. Joy 

George Sherman 

Plymouth 

Lallah Rookh 

Polynesia 

Maine 

Oriental 

City of Owen Sound. 
Dolphin 

G. D. Norris 

Edna 

Laketon 

Vernon 

Napoleon 

Acontias 

Moss 

Bessie Barwick 

Marie Victoire 

Sylvia Morton 

Fame 

Osceola 

Harmon 

Hinckley, 

Myosotis 

Consuelo 

Blazing Star 

Arizona 

City of Green Bay. 

Pacific 

S. H. Johnson 

Richard Morwood. . 

Abbie 

White Star 

Daisy Day 

Delaware 

Hannah Butter 

Alice Craig 

J. A. Holmes 

I. N. Foster 



Totals. 



schr 

prop 
tug 

schr 

prop 

prop 

schr 

schr 

prop 

scow 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 
tug 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

tug ( 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

prop 

prop 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

prop 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 

schr 



Gross Tons. 



855 
00 



575 
400 

350 
35° 
400 

150 
150 
200 
T.350 
300 
300 
160 



200 
500 
560 
525 
475 
600 



560 
375 
725 
600 

1.350 
650 

5io 
600 
54o 

1, 000 
600 

1,400 
150 

2, OOO 
250 
625 

750 
225 

350 
IOO 
200 
3OO 
200 
425 
450 
650 
125 
325 
525 
1,200 

45° 
5io 

525 
225 

45° 
1,200 
250 
1,050 
210 
600 
250 

575 
225 
300 

275 
100 
225 
620 



Value. 



Home Port. 



$25,500 Marine City., . . . 

6,000 Sheboygan 

9,000 Detroit 

5,000 Chicago. 

25,000 Milwaukee .... 

7,000 Sandusky 

3,000 Detroit 

5,000 East Saginaw. . 

8,000 Ashland 

2,000 Milwaukee 

2,000 Chicago 

35,000 Cleveland 

3,000 Detroit 

2,000 Detroit .■ 

1,000 Port Huron . . . 

4,000 Amherstburg. . . 

1,500 Milwaukee 

8,000 Cleveland 

9,000 Kenosha. 

8,000 Kenosha 

10,000 Cleveland 

45,000 Montreal 

4,000 Marine City 

9,000 Toledo ........ 

7,000 Caseville 

i4,coojToronto 

10.000 Port "Dalhousie. 

25.000 1 Cleveland 

i2,ooo|St. Catherines.. 

9,ooo!Toledo 



Lives Lost, 



34,400 



20,000 

7,000 
16,000 

6,000 
22,00c 

1,000 
45.000 

1,500 
10,000 
29,000 

I. OOO 

1,800 
600 
4,000 
40,000 

800 

4,000 

4.500 

6,000 
400 
2,800 
800 
75,000 
7,000 
5,000 
8,000 
1 , 500 1 
8,000 
40,000 
16,000 
22,000 
6,000 
6,000 

3.500 

8,000 
10,000 

3.500 

3,000 
1,800 
700 
8,000 



St. Catherines. . 

Buffalo 

Erie 

Cleveland 

New Baltimore. 
Manistee ...... 

Cleveland 

Chicago 

Kingston. 

Toronto 

Saginaw 

Saginaw. ...... 

Chicago 

Sheboygan 

Chicago 

Frankfort 

Detroit 

Detroit 

Hamilton 

Quebec 

East Saginaw . . 

Detroit 

Detroit 

Alpena 

Alpena 

Kenosha 

Detroit 



$777,700 



Oswego 

Erie 

Green Bay. 
Michigan City 

Chicago 

St. Catherines, 
Ludington. . . . 

Oswego 

Silver Lake. . . 
Lake Ontario , 

Cobourg , 

Bayfield 

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THE OHIO CANAL. 

The Ohio Canal, from Cleveland on Lake Erie to Portsmouth on the Ohio 
river, 307 miles, was begun in 1825 and completed in 1832, and cost $5,000,000. 
By the filling up of the bar at the mouth of the Scioto the canal became useless 
at the southern end. The Legislature appropriated at its last session the sum 
of $40,000 to cut a new line avoiding the bar, which work was completed 
and celebrated with public rejoicings at Portsmouth, November 17 last. The 
fiscal year closed on the eighteenth of the same month. A Plain Dealer dis- 
patch of the nineteenth from Akron says: A summing up of accounts shows 
that the canal has wonderfully improved from a business point of view, during 
the past twelve months. The statistics show that there were received at this 
port for the year 15,000,000 pounds of coal, 13,697,000 feet of lumber. 
1,333,000 lath, 8,000 bushels of wheat. There were shipped from here 1,600 
cords of wood, 45,500 pounds of powder, 50,000 pounds of sundries, 355 
barrels of flour, 600 barrels of cement. The cash receipts at this port for the 
year were $3,000, a gain of $500 over last year. The shipments of lumber are 
trebled over last year and the coal shipments are 2,000,000 pounds more. 




PALACE STEAMER CITY OF CLEVELAND. 



LEADING MANUFACTURES. 




HE iron business of Cleveland, in all its ramifications, amounts to an 
aggregate equal to one-third of the tax duplicate of the city. The 
investments in iron manufactures in 1886 were $26,000,300 ; the number 
of employes, 17,950, and the value of product $31,650,000. There are 



manufactured in Cleveland, agricultural implements, axles, boilers, bolts and 
nuts, bridges, car couplers, car wheels, electrical apparatus, fences, hardware, 
nails, iron pipe, pig, bar, sheet, rods, steel rails, boiler plate, safes and locks, 
saws, screws, sewing machines, shovels, iron ships, stoves, tacks, tools, wire nails, 
vapor stoves, etc. Following are the official figures : 



1886. 


Capital 
invested. 


Men 
employed. 


Products. 




$12,000,000 
2,500,000 
2,100,000 
2,000,000 
1,000,000 
1,000,000 
3,500,000 
400,000 
1,000,000 
250,000 
550,000 


6,500 
3,000 
1,250 
2,000 
1,500 
1,200 
500 
500 
750 
250 
500 


$13,500,000 
4,000,000 
2,500,000 
2,500,000 
2,000,000 
1,700,000 
1,600,000 
1,250,000 
1,000,000 
850,000 
750,000 




Sewing machines 




Nuts, bolts, etc 


Railway equipment 








Total .'. 


$26,000,300 


17,950 
15,441 


$31,650,000 
27,828,000 


Totals, 1885 


23,700,000 




Increase, 1880 


$ 3,300,300 


2,509 


$ 3,822,000 



PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. 

The consumption by manufacture into products of crude petroleum in Cleve- 
land during 1886 averaged 12,000 barrels each day, the value of the year's pro- 
duct being $12,177,817. The business was carried on by 13 refiners, 20 com- 
pounders and 36 dealers. Cleveland is located midway between the great Ohio 
and Pennsylvania oil fields. 



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Local manufacturers of woolen goods employ nearly 2,000 people, and with an 
invested capital of $3,500,000 do a business aggregating about $9,000,000 a year. 

As heretofore noted, Cleveland is headquarters of the oil trade. It is also the 
second largest lumber and building material market in the world, and a great 
boot, shoe and harness manufacturing centre ; but reliable statistics are unob- 
tainable owing to the omission of annual reports of the Board of Trade, and 
we are compelled reluctantly to forego the presentation of exhibits that could 
not but prove interesting and valuable. 

The laxity of the building regulations is responsible for much of the loss by 
fire, great districts being built almost of pine-shingled frame houses. The brick 
manufacturing industry, however, is steadily improving, and the returns show a 
total for 1886 of 26 yards, the longest making 4,000,000, the smallest 250,000 a 
year — in all 50,000,000. 




WALK-IN-THE- WATER — FIRST STEAMBOAT ON LAKE ERIE. 



THE PRESS. 



THERE can be no fairer index of the moral standing, material progress and 
general intelligence of a community than is supplied by its newspaper press, 
which, voicing public sentiment in its various phases, conserving public in- 
terests and pointing the way to a larger and better development, is at once 
the pioneer and the product of advancement. Cleveland people are justly 
proud of their press, which for ability and enterprise is unsurpassed by that of any 
city of equal population in the world, and comprises a list of five dailies (three 
English, two German), three tri-weeklies, two semi-weeklies, thirty-six weeklies, 
five semi-monthlies, thirty-eight monthlies and several quarterlies. We have space 
for extended notice of but a few of these, selecting the most prominent and 
influential. 

THE PLAIN DEALER. 

The Plain Dealer is the direct descendant of the Cleveland Advertiser 
(weekly), established in 1834 by VV. Woodward, who soon afterward transferred 
the concern to Canfield & Spencer. In 1836 those gentlemen made the 
Advertiser a daily, which they continued until 1841, when it was purchased by 
Gray Brothers, who conferred upon it the name it still bears. Under the edi- 
torial direction of J. W. Gray, the Plain Dealer almost immediately took rank 
with the leading newspaporial molders of opinion in the West, and up to the 
•death of that brilliant man, in 1862, it maintained its position as the leading 
local journal, both in the character of a party organ and a vehicle of news, and 
took no small part in the struggle of i860 that rent the Democratic party in 
twain, made it possible to elect Lincoln, furnished the excuse and opportunity 
for secession, and led to the civil war. It is almost needless to say that the 
Plain Dealer supported Douglas — he and Mr. Gray being intimate personal 
friends. It was under Mr. Gray's administration that Charles F. Browne ("Arte- 
mus Ward "), then city editor, first attracted attention to himself as a humorous 
writer and laid the foundation of his future fame. Browne's desk is still in ex- 
istence — a much-valued relic in the rooms of the Historical Society. For three 
years subsequent to Mr. Gray's death the paper was continued by the executors 
of his estate, when Major W. W. Armstrong, publisher of the Tiffin Advertiser, 
and previously Secretary of State of Ohio, purchased the property. The Major, 
a graceful and powerful writer of enlarged views, thoroughly conversant with 



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Ohio politics, a competent, industrious business man, warm-hearted, liberal and 
magnetic, bent all his energies to the advancement of his paper, in which he 
succeeded in the face of all difficulties, making the [Flam Dealer a political 
power, the influence of which has grown with its years. Always conservative,, 
yet earnest and outspoken and ably conducted, the Democracy is under lasting 
obligations to this great journal, which has for nearly forty-five years consistently 
and unwaveringly championed that party's cause in every vicissitude — in sun- 
shine and storm, in victory and defeat — and continues with unflagging courage 
and zeal to wield effectively the weapons of argument and persuasion in advo- 
cacy and defense of its principles and policy. In 1867 Hon. F. W. Green, 
ex-member of Congress and for the previous twelve years clerk of. the United 
States District Court at this point, became associated with Major Armstrong as- 
half owner and editorial writer — a position for which his natural bent and 
political training eminently fitted him. Nine years later — 1876 — Major Arm- 
strong resumed the sole ownership and direction of the paper, and it is matter 
of record that it never was more vigorous than in the Tilden-Hayes campaign 
and the stirring times immediately succeeding. The Plain Dealer Publishing 
Company, a joint stock concern, composed of W. W. Armstrong and the old: 
employes, was organized, with Mr. Armstrong as president, editor and manager,, 
and continued until 1884, when the present company became the purchasers,, 
and the Plain Dealer of former times ceased to exist — the chrysalis stage was> 
passed, and with new blood, new ideas and new methods in every department, a 
new era was inaugurated, the domain of metropolitan journalism invaded, modern' 
improvements adopted from cellar to roof, a corps of trained specialists, cor- 
respondents, etc., secured, and at last the Democracy of Northern Ohio found 
themselves possessed of an organ worthy the name. In March, 1885, 
opportunity presenting, the Evening Herald plant — a very complete one — was 
added, and on the fifteenth of that month the Plain Dealer was issued from 
the old Herald office, an eight-page, fifty-six-column morning and evening news- 
paper of the first class, provided with every desirable facility. At present the 
paper is issued morning and evening, tri-weekly, weekly and Sunday — the 
latter edition comprising sixteen pages, illustrated and filled with interesting, 
literary and miscellaneous matter, correspondence, politics and the news of the 
day. The Plain Dealer owns and occupies the commodious four-story and 
basement building Nos. 225 and 227 Bank street, conveniently arranged and 
thoroughly equipped for the business to which it is devoted, with mailing and 
storage-rooms in the basement, counting-room, offices and press-room on first 
floor, editorial and telegraph rooms on second floor, composing-rooms and job- 
department on third and fourth floors. Special wires connect the establish- 
ment with New York, Washington and Columbus, and Associated Press wires- 
are also provided. The great Scott press is capable of printing, pasting and 
folding 30,000 complete papers per hour. The Plain Dealer Company is a. 
joint stock organization ; L. E. Holden, president ; George T. Prescott, secre- 
tary and general manager. The remaining stockholders are R. R. Holden,. 



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editor-in-chief, Charles H. Bulkley, L. H. Prescott, W. W. Armstrong, post- 
master, and John C. Rowland, the latter long identified with the paper. 

THE CLEVELAND LEADER, 

The Leader is the second largest and most influential of the Ohio Republican 
newspapers. In 1848 two Cleveland newspapers, the True Democrat and 
American and the Forest City Democrat, were consolidated under the latter name. 
In 1875 Edwin Cowles became sole owner, the name having been changed a 
year previously to Cleveland Leader. Up to 1867 Mr. Cowles was sole pro- 
prietor, Mr. J. A. Harris being his associate editor from 1856 to i860, when he 
resigned. Mr. Cowles has been nominally or actually editor-in-chief since 1867, 
spending much of his time in foreign travel. The present Cleveland Leader 
Printing Company, a stock concern, was incorporated in 1869, with Mr. Cowles 
as principal stockholder, which secures to him direction of affairs, dictation of 
policy, and undisputed editorial control. The same year was commenced the 
issue of an afternoon edition — the Evening News — which was continued until 
1885, when the purchase of the subscription books and good will of the defunct 
Herald enabled the company to consolidate the two as the News and Herald, 
which is in fact the evening edition of the Leader. Mr. Cowles is the oldest of 
local journalists in point of continuous service, a fluent and powerful writer, and 
unquestionably wields much influence in local, State and national politics, his 
work being marked by strong individualism and in some respects marred by 
intense personal feeling. His thorough sincerity is undoubted, however, and 
many of those who differ radically from his views in other matters are his most 
earnest personal and political friends and supporters. The Leader and Evening 
News and Herald are excellent newspapers, bias aside, and are largely read at 
home and abroad. The staff consists of J. C. Covert, managing editor ; H. A. 
Griffin, associate ; J. B. Morrow, city editor ; a complete corps of reporters, and 
some three hundred correspondents at leading points throughout the country. 

THE PRESS. 

The first number of The Press (then the Penny Press) was issued November 
2, 1878 — E. W. Scripps, managing editor; W. H. Little, city editor; John S. 
Sweeney, business manager. The size at that time was 18x24 inches. April 
2, 1879, it was enlarged to 183^ x 28 inches ; October 11, 1880, to 20^2 x 28 
inches, again in 1884, and recently to 23 x 32 inches, thus making it one of the 
largest penny papers in the country. The word " Penny " was dropped from 
the title in 1884. The Press is a member of the Scripps syndicate of evening 
papers, which includes the Detroit News, Cincinnati Post and St. Louis 
Chronicle. The Cleveland member has been remarkably successful, prints five 
or six editions daily, has a large circulation and liberal advertising patronage, is 
a bright, interesting little paper, carefully and ably edited, containing all the 
news of the day in condensed form, presents a constant succession of brilliant 
feuilletons, and is regarded as one of the most influential and valuable of Cleve- 



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land's daily journals. R. F. Payne, jr., is managing editor ; Fred L. Purdy, city 
editor ; John M. Wilcox, associate editor ; Charles B. Williams, State editor ; 
Sam. M. Williams, telegraph editor. Fifty men and women are employed in all. 

THE CLEVELAND ANZEIGER. 

The Anzeiger is the leading German newspaper of Northern Ohio, issued 
daily, weekly and Sunday, and publishing the Associated Press dispatches. It 
was founded in 1871 by the Anzeiger Company, of which William Kaufman is 
president ; H. Thier, vice-president ; C. W. Maedje, secretary. In politics the 
Anzeiger is independent, yet wide-awake, progressive and influential. Mr. H. 
Thier is editor-in-chief, assisted by a capable and accomplished corps of asso- 
ciates in all departments. In all, eighty men are employed. The daily, circu- 
lation 10,000, forty-eight columns ; Sunday, circulation 12,000, seventy to ninety 
columns ; weekly, circulation 5,000, fifty six columns. The Anzeiger occupies 
the commodious four-story building No. 135 St. Clair street. 

WACHTER AM ERIE. 

This is the only German Democratic daily published in Cleveland, and has a 
large circulation throughout the State, of which it is one of the oldest German 
newspapers, having been founded in 1852. It is published every afternoon and 
Sunday morning by the Wachter am Erie Publishing Company ; C. L. Hotze, 
president ; Jacob P. Miller, secretary ; Carl Claussen, editor-in-chief ; office, 
No. 77 Michigan street. The daily edition comprises eight six column pages, the 
Sunday edition twelve similar pages. 

MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY. 

The Magazine of Western History, published by a company of the same 
name, at No. 145 St. Clair street, was established in 1884, its first number being 
issued in November of that year. It is now in its seventh volume, and the 
success which has attended it is not only highly encouraging in a financial way, 
but speaks well of the interest taken in historical matters by the people of the 
Central and Western States. It goes into all parts of the country, and has a 
constituency of correspondents and contributors who spare no labor or pains to 
make it what its name implies — a cyclopedia of facts relating to the discovery, 
settlement and growth of the West ; a history of the great movements and 
achievements of our land, and a treasury of knowledge that shall be of the rarest 
interest and value to the historian of the future. It deals not altogether with the 
dead past, but gleans from the lips and pens of men now living their own personal 
account of the wonderful things the last half-century has accomplished. It 
•numbers in its list of contributors some of the best-known historians of our 
country, and also many who are recommended more by their personal knowl- 
edge of the themes discussed than by any claim to historical reputation. The 
magazine is upon a sure foundation, and promises even better work in the 
future than it- has accomplished in the past. It is under the management of 
Mr. L. A. Williams, while Mr. J. H. Kennedy has editorial control. 

THE MARINE RECORD. 

At the center of lake ship-building, Cleveland, the Marine Record has been pub- 
lished for the last eight years, and it is now the only marine newspaper published 
west of New York city, having outlived all its contemporaries in the maritime inter- 
est. The Marine Record was started in the fall of 1879, and has continued to grow in 



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size and influence from that date until the present time. The edition of Novem- 
ber 17 last was enlarged by the addition of eight columns, which is equivalent 
to two pages — made possible by the extensive advertising patronage it has gained 
during the last six months and the enormous growth in its subscription list. The 
present publisher, Mr. A. A. Pomeroy, took charge of the Record during the 
summer of 1883, and has conducted it on business principles, so that to-day it 
stands at the head of maritime publications in this country. Being an official! 
newspaper of the War Department, it is desirable to all contractors for river and 
harbor improvements ; being the official newspaper for the Lake Carriers' Associa- 
tion, it is desirable for all vessel men ; being the only marine newspaper on the 
lakes, it is desirable for all dealers in marine goods, as an advertising medium. 
The editor, who has been connected with the newspaper business during the last 
twenty-three years, is a positive and enterprising journalist, and has proved, since 
he took charge of the Marine Record, that " the fittest survive." The office of 
the Record is at No. 144 Superior street. 

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 

This handsome and well-conducted journal, devoted to the interests of the 
iron trade and manufacturers of iron, steel and metals, is issued weekly from 
the office, corner Wood and St. Clair streets, and is an authority in all that per- 
tains to the matters of which it treats. It was established in 1868 by Adams 
Bros., who sold to W. R. Anderson in 1880, and he, in 1882, to Day & Carter. 
At present the Cleveland Printing and Publishing Company are the owners — 
incorporated November 7, 1887 ; W. M. Day, president and editor-in-chief;. 
F. W. Carter, secretary ; T. J. Staral, treasurer ; A. Winterberg, superintendent. 
This company are also publishers of the Western Machinist, monthly, devoted 
to the machinery trade, and of the Scroll Sawyer, monthly, devoted to the 
woodworking interest. 

THE SUNDAY WORLD 

Originated as the Sunday Journal in 1881 by Henderson and J. J. 

Smith of the old Plain Dealer, and J. J. Greeves of the Catholic Knight, and 
was a Democratic paper. A few years later Henderson and Greeves sold out, 
and J. J. Smith continued the paper for some time. James S. Cockett, who 
had been connected with the Press, then obtained control, being associated with 
Jay Comstock and William Rehill. When the paper fell into their hands its 
politics was changed to independent. In July, 1886, W. Scott Robison, 
former publisher of the Sun and Voice, purchased the stock of Messrs. Comstock 
and Rehill, and Messrs. Robison and Cockett, its present publishers, changed 
its name to the Sunday World. It is now published at No. 134 St. Clair street, 
is a strictly independent Sunday newspaper, and enjoys great prosperity. 

THE SUN AND VOICE. 

This neat and widely circulated Sunday journal, Republican in politics, is 
issued from'No. 135 St. Clair street by the Sun and Voice Publishing Company ;. 
O. J. Hodge, president and editor. This paper is the successor, by consoli- 
dation, of the Voice, established 187 1, Cleveland's first Sunday paper; the Post, 
started a few years later and absorbed by the Voice in 1876* and the Sun, estab- 
lished in 1880 and united to the Voice in 1885. A consolidation of three able 
journals in one, the Sun and Voice is a very '.handsome eight-column eight-page 
publication, carefully made up for family reading, well edited and quite popular,, 
having, it is claimed, a much larger bona fide circulation than any other distinct- 
ively Sunday paper in Cleveland. 



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REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES. 



CLEVELAND'S LEADING MERCANTILE, MANUFACTURING AND 
FINANCIAL CONCERNS. 



In the series of descriptive articles that follow we have endeavored to make 
concise and appropriate mention of every well-established, important and de- 
serving mercantile, manufacturing and commercial house in Cleveland, feeling 
that so much of recognition is due to those whose industry, energy and capital 
are enlisted in building up the city's material interests and developing and main- 
taining her commercial supremacy. Only those establishments whose reputa- 
tions are above suspicion have been mentioned, and if the list be incomplete it 
is not because of any bias on the part of the editors or publishers. 

With the utmost confidence we commend every business house named in these 
pages to the good-will and patronage of the entire country, East West and South. 
Liberal, enterprising, of sterling personal and business character, this is the class 
of men upon whom the future growth of Cleveland and her influence upon the 
welfare of the country and the continent depend. 



THE GLOBE IRON WORKS COMPANY, 

Builders of Iron and Steel Steamships, Marine Machinery, and Engines and Boilers 
of Every Description— Sheet and Plate Iron Workers, Machinists and Founders 
— H. M. Hanna, President; J. F. Pankhurst, Vice-President and General Man- 
ager; Luther Allen, Secretary and Treasurer — Office and Works, Elm and 
Spruce Sts., Iron^Ship Yard, Old River Bed, Foot of St. Paul St. 

The Globe Iron Works,- one of Cleveland's most famous industrial establishments, was 
founded by the Globe Iron Works (a partnership) in 1853. The present Globe Iron Works 
Company organized with a cash 1 capital of $500,000, purchased the original plant, and was 
incorporated and took possession in July, 1886. In all its departments about 700 men are 
employed, and the value of the annual output, measured by the capacity of the works, 
will approximate one million dollars. Its business embraces the construction of iron and 
steel steamships and marine machinery of every description — steam engines and boilers, 
etc., and the facilities are fully equal tomeet any demand likely to be made upon them. 

The foundry fronts 100 feet on Elm, at the corner of Spruce street, and is the most com- 
plete establishment of its kind in the West. It is provided with the necessary cupolas for 
melting iron and is capable of turning out the largest and heaviest castings made. Here 
were cast the frames of the tripple-expansion engine for the steamship Cambria and many 
others. 

Opposite the foundry, on the northwest corner of Elm nnd Spruce streets, stands a three- 



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story building about 150 feet square devoted to machine shops, and equipped with 
the best and most modern appliances for the construction of marine and stationary engines, 
a 100-horse-power engine furnishing the motive power. We noticed here under construction 
four large marine engines — two of them being of the triple-expansion type 2,000-horse 
power each, and two of the compound type of about 1,000-horse power each. Huge cranes 
are used for moving the various parts of heavy machinery from place to place. At the 
northeast corner is situated the blacksmith shop, running five forges. The second floor is 
equipped with a full complement of machinery, and is largely devoted to the construction 
of the new Globe " noiseless " steam-steering engines, duplex hoisting engines, with pumps 
attached, and steam pumps. The pattern shop is located on this floor. The third floor is 
vised for the storage of patterns, etc. 

The boiler works, 75 x 227 feet, are north of the machine shops and extend through from 
Elm to Center streets. These shops are complete in all departments, and have recently 
been perfected by the addition of the most modern boiler-making tools and appliances. 
Among the new tools is a hydraulic riveter with \o]/ 2 feet gap, capable of exerting a pres- 
sure of 100 tons. This tool is served with a hydraulic crane of 25 tons capacity. There 
is also a hydraulic flanging machine, served with three furnaces and a hydraulic crane. 
One of the most unique tools in this department is a boiler shell-drilling machine, which 
is the largest of its class in this country. It is capable of drilling the shell plates of a 
boiler 16 feet in diameter. Near this tool is a set of boiler plate bending rolls capable of 
bending a sheet ij^ inch thick and is 18 feet long. This tool was built by the Globe Iron 
Works Company, and is one of the most powerful machines in the country for its purpose. 

The ship-yard is located on the old river bed and fronts over 1000 feet on] old River 
street at the foot of St. Paul street. It has a capacity of three large steel steamships at 
one time, and the shops are equipped with a full complement of tools for the rapid con- 
struction of the steamers, the present capacity of the plant being six large steamships com- 
plete per year. In addition to the facilities for iron and steel ship construction, those for 
wooden ship-building are complete. 

This company now has contracts for ship-building to the amount of $2,000,000, and 
among the work on hand, and especially worthy of note, are six steel vessels of 2,800 tons 
each, for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railway company. 

Partial list of vessels built by these works : Steamship Onoko, 3000 tons ; steamship 
Win. Chisholm, 2300 tons ; steamship J. H. Devereaux, 2300 tons ; side-wheel steamer 
Darius Cole; steamship Spokane, 2400 tons; steamship Cambria, 2700 tons; steamship 
Chas. J. Sheffield, 2550 tons ; steamship Ira H. Owen, 2600 tons ; steamship for Lehigh 
Valley Transportation Co., 2800 tons ; steamship Corsica for Mutual Transfer Co., 2800 tons. 



CUDELL & RICHARDSON. 

Architects — Room 6, No. 204 Superior St. 

Cleveland gives ample evidence, in the style of her public and private buildings of late 
years, that the educated and trained architect is here, and has brought with him the skill 
and talent that have so long distinguished his profession in Europe and the East. In fact, 
the architect is here in force, there are a good many of him, he has come to stay, and the 
probability is that the Cleveland of ten years hence will no more resemble the Cleveland 
of to-day than does the Cleveland of to-day resemble the Cleveland of twenty years ago — 
that magnificent business block,s will line the streets of the commercial district, and palatial 
residences adorn all of the present and many as yet unprojected residence avenues. 

Prominent among those who have contributed by their architectural knowledge and 
creative talents to the elevation and beautifying of the city, is the firm of Cudell and Rich- 
ardson, who formed a co-partnership in 1870, taking an office at No. 214 Superior street, 
removing in 1874 to the Beckman building, No. 204 Superior street, which, by the way, 
they designed, and in which they occupy room No. 6. The firm make a specialty of plan- 
ning the highest classes of mercantile and manufacturing buildings and private residences, 
and specimens of their conceptions are found all over the city, notable among them the 
massive block, corner of Bank and Lake streets, owned by Root & McBride Bros, and the 
Bradley estate ; the Worthington block, St. Clair street ; the Masonic temple, the Jewish 
Orphan Asylum, Excelsior club-house, the Germania, the Severance buildings, the Litho- 
graph building, and many other conspicuous structures, notably the Perry-Payne building 
on Superior street, now in course of erection, which will be the finest and most substantial 
business building in the city. 

Mr. Cudell is a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute, Aix la Chapelle, Germany. Came 
here in 1866. Mr. Richardson is of Scottish birth, began business life as a contractor and 
builder in Canada in i860, came here in 1863, and adopted architecture as a profession in 1866. 

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JAMES F. RYDER, 



Art Gallery, Photographic and Crayon Studio— Dealer in Art Goods and Artists' Mate- 
rials—Furnisher of Amateur Photographic Outfits— Nos. 239, 241 and 243 Superior 
Street. ' ^ 

Few arts have kept pace, of late years, with photography as 
regards improvement of processes and development of 
resources. There are men now living who distinctly remem- 
ber the furor created by the newspaper reports of Daguerre's 
early success— the initial steps that in the fullness of time 
resulted in the production of the photograph and its steady 
improvement through laborious study and experiment until 
to-day the photographer has displaced the portrait painter 
(whose best efforts are mere daubs in comparison), and bids 
fair ere long to set aside the brush and palette of the land- 
scape artist, leaving to the embryo Michael Angelo of the 
future no field save that of fancy. 

A prominent figure among those who on this side of the 
Atlantic have devoted their lives and their talents to the 
perfection of photographic processes is Mr. James F. Ryder, 
whose magnificent establishment at Nos. 239, 241 and 243 
Superior street has no equal in point of extent, completeness 
and attractiveness, on this continent outside of New York, 
and even the great metropolis boasts of but one or two 
that can rival it. The building itself is an ornament to 
Cleveland's most popular thoroughfare, three stories in height, 
30 feet front and 200 feet deep, with a beautiful granite 
arcade front, presenting a spacious vestibule, guarded by iron 
gates which are thrown wide open from sunrise to sunset the 
year round. In the center of this arcade is the capacious show 
window wherein from time to time are exposed the finest 
obtainable works of art for the pleasure of the general pub- 
lic. The entrances, two in number, are placed at each side 
of this grand show window, and lead directly into the 
superbly appointed store, in rear of which is unquestionably the largest and most attractive 
art gallery (free to all) west of New York. The floors above are devoted to reception rooms, 
operating and finishing rooms, and other purposes connected with the business carried on, 
Mr. Ryder having at his disposal fifteen thousand square feet of floor space. In the depart- 
ment of art goods and art materials will be found inexhaustible lines of all supplies relating 
to the painter's and photographer's arts — paints, colors, varnishes, brushes, palettes, 
frames, canvas, oil paintings, steel engravings, choice photographic specimens, statuary, 
bronzes, photographers' supplies of every description, and, in short, every article of use or 
ornament in any way appropriate to a magazine of this class. 

The reception rooms are themselves pictures of elegance and luxury, furnished and dec- 
orated lavishly yet tastefully, while the photographic operating and finishing rooms, lighted 
and fitted up in the most perfect manner, are equipped with every convenience and modern 
improvement in instruments and appliances that can contribute to the best results. This 
establishment is the resort of the elite of Cleveland society and of thousands from all parts 
of Northern Ohio when in quest of superior photographic work. 

Mr. James F. Ryder, now at the pinnacle of his professional fame, is in the right sense 
of the word a self-made man. He came to this city from New York State in 1850, and 
became interested in the gallery of Johnson & Fellows, who subsequently retired. Pos- 
sessed of untiring industry and energy and a determination to succeed, Mr. Ryder devoted 
all the powers of his naturally active and ingenious mind to the development of pho- 
tography and the adaptation of new ideas wherever originated. The late President Garfield 
thus referred to Mr. Ryder in an address to the students of the Washington Consolidated 
Business - College, Washington, D. C, June 29, 1869: "Only yesterday on my way here 
I learned a fact which I will give you to show how, by attending to things and putting 
your mind to the work, you may reach success. A few days ago in the city of Boston there 
was held an exhibition of photography, and to the great surprise of New England it turned 
out that Mr. Ryder, a photographer from Cleveland, Ohio, took the prize for the best 
photography in America. But how did this happen ? I will tell you. This Cleveland 
photographer happened to read in a German paper of a process practiced by the artists of 




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Bohemia — a process of touching up the negative with the finest instruments, thus removing 
all chemical imperfections from the negative itself. Reading this, he sent for one of these 
artists, and at length succeeded in bringing the art of Bohemia into the service of his own 
profession. The patient German sat down with his lenses, and bringing a strong, clear 
light upon these negatives, working with the finest instruments, rounding and strengthen- 
ing the outlines, was able at last to print from the negative a photograph more perfect 
than any I have seen with an India ink finish. And so Mr. Ryder took the prize. 
Why not ? It was no mystery ; it was simply taking time by the forelock, securing the 
best aid in his business, and bringing to bear the force of an energetic mind to attain the 
best possible results. That is the only way, young ladies and gentlemen, in which success 
is gained. These men succeed because they deserve success. Their results are wrought 
out ; they do not come to hand already made. Poets may be born, but success is made." 

Mr. Ryder's fame is not confined to this city or State, nor even to this hemisphere. He 
has taken ten silver medals at as many Ohio State fairs, a bronze medal at the World's 
Exposition, two gold medals at the National Exhibition, the prize cup of the Braunswieg 
Exhibition, Germany, and numerous medals, diplomas and prizes of lesser note. At this 
time he employs twenty-five persons and does a large business. 



THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO. 



Thomas H, White, President ; R. C. White, Vice-President ; M. L. Goss, Secretary ; 
F. 1VL Sanderson, Treasurer — Factory, Nos. 10 to 40 Canal St. ; Offices, Nos. 57 
and 59 Euclid Ave. 

No country in the world can 
compete with the United States 
in the manufacture of sewing 
machines, either as regards per- 
fection of mechanism, grade of 
workmanship, or volume of 
output. As a matter of fact, 
American machines are largely 
exported, a market and steadily 
increasing demand being found 
for them throughout Europe, 
Asia, Africa, Polynesia, Aus- 
tralia, Mexico, Central and 
South America. 

Of the many corporations en- 
gaged in this industry we know 
•of none having a more generous patronage or fairer prospects than the White Sewing Ma- 
chine Company of Cleveland, organized in 1876 by a body of practical sewing machine 
men, who erected works with a capacity for turning out 200 machines per week. To show 
how the demand has grown, it may be stated here that the factory now owned and operated 
by the company is from four to six stories in height, 60 feet deep and 500 feet long, that 
1,000 men are steadily employed, and that 2,000 complete machines are shipped every six 
days to every nook and corner of the civilized world, some 700,000 now being in use. 
Branch houses in London and Paris supply the European and the Eastern world, while 
American dealers are provided directly from the Cleveland office and its American branches. 

In the matter of improvements, new and convenient devices, the White Sewing Machine 
leads all of her competitors ; a corps of mechanical experts and inventors is constantly 
experimenting and perfecting ideas of convenience and desirability, and the extent to which 
the machine is peculiar in itself is shown in this, that the company uses more than 25 
patents in the construction of the WHITE, among which are the self-threading shuttle, 
patent metal case drawers, the best embroidery and arasene attachments ever produced. 
» They were the first company to make an automatic bobbin winder, and also the first pro- 
ducers of hem stitch attachments . These few, together with special adaptability of the 
White to the successful use of all kinds of attachments, by reason of its mechanical con- 
struction, gives the machine a larger range of work than any other in the world. This fact 
has been repeatedly noticed at the many expositions and fairs at which the White has been 
exhibited, it having invariably won the highest honors — in honest competition. The gen- 
eral standing of the company, financially, is of the highest order, and the reputation for 
honorable, straightforward dealing is universal. With a motto of "Perfection, protection 
and popularity," its history is honest success. 




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THE GLIDDEN & JOY VARNISH CO. 

F. H. Glidden, President ; Wm. F. Joy, Vice-President ; F. K. Glidden, Secretary 
and Treasurer — Manufacturers of Fine Varnishes and Japans — N. Y., C. & St- 
L. and C. & P. Railroads, Near Woodland Ave. 

This flourishing industry was established in 1871 by Glidden & Joy, the present com- 
pany being incorporated in 1883 with a capital stock of $100,000. The officers, named 
above, are old residents of Cleveland, enterprising citizens and reputable business men, 
who by the exercise of skill, liberality and square dealing, have made a marked success 
of their own venture and added not a little to the fame of the city as a manufacturing 
and commercial metropolis, their trade extending to all sections of the Union, to Canada, 
Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America, while their goods, of the highest 
grade, are popular and salable wherever introduced. Their specialties are varnishes of 
the higher class — such as railway, carriage, furniture and fine house finishing material 
of finest grades. 

The premises occupied comprise some four acres of ground eligibly located on the lines 
of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis and Cleveland & Pittsburg railroads, near Wood- 
land avenue, on which have been erected several commodious one and two-story brick build- 
ings specially designed for the purposes to which they are devoted — the manufacture of 
full lines of superior varnishes and japans for all the purposes to which this class of goods 
are applicable. 

The Glidden & Joy Varnish Company maintain a separate branch of their business at 
Kansas City, Mo., — a complete factory, conducted on an independent basis — which is meet- 
ing with great success. 



THE STILLMAN. 

The Stillman Company, Proprietors — Col. Wm. H. Harris, President - H. P. Eells, 
Secretary and Treasurer; J. Warren Coleman, Jr., Manager — Euclid Avenue, 
above Erie St. 

The Stillman, erected in 1883, is one of the 
architectural attractions of the city, seven stories 
and basement in height, 80 feet front, 150 feet 
deep, constructed of pressed brick, with tasteful 
stone trimmings, with spacious halls and offices, 
conveniently and elegantly arranged, finished, dec- 
orated and furnished throughout, with ample and 
luxurious accommodations for over two hundred 
guests at one time. The attendance is the best 
that liberal pay and careful supervision can com- 
mand. The table is all that could be desired, 
lavishly supplied at all seasons with the choicest 
substantial and luxuries a liberal management, 
backed by ample means, can obtain, prepared in 
the most tempting style by an accomplished Parisian chef de cuisine. Mr. J. Warren Cole- 
man, Jr., has absolute control and direction of all that concerns the entertainment of the 
traveling public who patronize the Stillman, and renders uniform satisfaction. 

The house, provided with elevators and all modern improvements, is warmed by steam, 
lighted by electricity, and every room and hall connected by electric bells with the office. 
The building besides, is absolutely fire-proof ; and taken as a whole, the Stillman is a model 
hotel in all essentials. 



GEORGE NORRIS & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Pine Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Cedar Posts, and Odd- 
Sized Timber of all kinds — Office and Yard, No. 23 Main St. 

Having recently bought out the business of the well-known Saginaw Bay Lumber Com- 
pany, for so many years established in Cleveland, the firm of George Norris will con- 
tinue the business of the Saginaw Lumber Company at No. 143 Columbus street, as well 
as their own business at the old stand, No. 23 Main street, doing a wholesale and retail 
trade at both yards. 

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period Mr. George Norris has labored faithfully and effectively to make Cleveland a great 
lumber market. He is a native of Connecticut, has resided in Cleveland during the past 
thirty-four years, and enjoys the unbounded confidence and respect of all who know him, 
and especially of all connected with the building trades and lumber interest. 

The Saginaw Lumber Co., George Norris proprietor, own two large lumber yards; one 
of four acres, situated conveniently with reference to river and railroad transportation, 
with office at No. 143 Columbus street, doing a wholesale and retail shipping business ; the 
other, of two acres, with office at No. 23 Main street, making a specialty of trade gen- 
erally. Confining their operations principally to Ohio, the company have ample facilities, 
and handle about 12,000,000 feet per annum of all grades of Michigan pine lumber, lath, 
shingles, etc., filling orders at short notice for large and odd sizes of timber for any desired 
purpose. Their leading specialty, superior white pine lumber, they receive in cargoes, 
from Alpena, Mich. 

THE GEO. WORTHINGTON CO., 

Importers and Jobbers of Hardware, Engines, Machinery, Iron, Nails, Carriages and 
Saddlery Hardware, etc. — Nos. 59 and 61 St. Clair St. 

The above-named firm is the 
great leading Northern Ohio rep- 
resentative house in the hardware 
trade, and was founded half a cen- 
tury ago— in 183 7 — by Geo. Worth- 
ington & Co. In the early part of 
the present year the concern was 
reorganized as a joint stock com- 
pany with a capital of $300,000 
and officered as follows: President, 
James Barnett ; vice-president, 
George Deming ; secretary, James 
Storer. The company is incor- 
porated under the laws of Ohio, 
and one of the soundest and most 
flourishing institutions in the State,, 
capably managed, influential and 
thoroughly responsible. The es- 
tablishment, Nos. 59 and 61 St. 
Clair street, ranks among the larg- 
est in the country, 66 feet front by 
240 feet deep, five stories and base- 
ment, employs some ninety men in 
all departments, and enjoys a trade 
reckoned in millions of dollars an- 
nually, extending to all portions 
of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and 
Illinois, as far east as Pennsylvania, 
south to Tennessee and northwest 
to Wisconsin. It were a hopeless 
task to attempt an enumeration of 
the goods handled by Geo. Worth- 
ington & Co., and a passing glance is all we have space for. The first or ground floor is 
devoted to the offices and counting-room of the company and to the exhibition and sale 
of steam engines, guns, pistols and sporting goods and a magnificent line of costly spe- 
cialties. On the second floor is shown an almost inexhaustible stock of harness and sad- 
dlery hardware in infinite variety, together with full lines of machinists' tools and kindred 
goods. Tinners' and tinmen's tools in endless profusion, including all modern improved 
implements and appliances pertaining to the trade, and a superb stock of horse-blankets,, 
whips, etc., are found on the third floor, while the fourth floor presents a beautiful array 
of housekeeping goods in iron and tin and brass. The basement is devoted to iron, nails,, 
and metals, of which the assortment is the largest and most complete in the city. 

Among the specialties may be named improved pumps for steam boilers and vessels, 
machinists' lathes, steam engines, portable forges, moving jacks, pulleys and hangers, 
blowers, fans, rubber and leather belting and hose, butchers' tools and machines, lawn, 
mowers, scales, bird-cages, bells, etc., etc., all from the most celebrated manufacturers. 





Mr. J. M. Chandler founded this flourishing house in having removed hither from 

Fredonia, N. Y., where for the previous seven years he was engaged in the same branch 
of business on a smaller scale. Once located in Cleveland, with the splendid field of busi- 
ness before him of which she is the center and mistress, the task of building up a large 
trade became to a man of his ability and genius a comparatively easy one, and the re- 
sult of his efforts is seen in the magnificent establishment and widespread connections 
which he controls. 

The firm of J. M. Chandler & Co. occupy four entire floors at No. 185 Superior street, 25 
feet front by 180 feet deep, and carry an immense and varied stock of fine and medium 
jewelry, watches, diamonds, set and unset, silver ware, bronzes, rare imported clocks, and 
in short, everything required in the trade, whose patronage it is an object to attract. The 
house has customers in almost'every State in the Union, and still continues to extend its 
circle of acquaintance into remoter regions while cultivating and retaining the patronage 
of old friends by means of upright dealing and liberality. As a result sales steadily 
incerase, aggregating about $300,000 for 1887. 

With their accustomed energy and foresight Messrs. Chandler & Co. have added to their 
stock the celebrated Geneva non-magnetic watches, containing Paillard's patent non-mag- 
netic balance and hair spring, which are uninfluenced by magnetism or electricity. In the pres- 
ent day when electricity is being rapidly impressed into man's service and made to discharge 
the most varied functions, the old order of things is being effected and changes are being 
made on every hand. What once sufficed to meet the exigencies of the times — which, a 
few years ago, were less than now— no 1 nger holds its own, and so has to make way for 
modern improvements and more perfect work. In this respect there is no more striking 
change than has taken place in the science of watchmaking. What once was valued as 
an accurate time-keeper is no longer so when used by electricians, or even when used by the 
general public, who, in the course of their daily callings, are brought into contact more 
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either for the generation of the electric light, the propulsion of cars, or the operation of 
various kinds of machinery, commercial or domestic. The magnetic influence of the electric 
dynamo is so powerful that it has been found to seriously affect the running of watches, 
and this to so serious an extent that they cannot be relied upon as accurate recorders or 
indicators of the rapid flight of time. This discovery has led to the manufacture of various 
novelties intended to counteract this influence, and as is usual in the introduction of any 
new thing, various claims are made which it is not always possible to substantiate ; hence 
it is that the subject of the effects of magnetism upon watches, and of non-magnetic 
watches, or watches that are impervious to, or proof against all magnetic influences, is ex- 
citing so much interest both among scientists and the general public alike. The parts of a 
watch which have control of the time are the balance and hair spring, and it is these 
which are so sensibly affected in even slight fields of magnetism, causing a disturbance of 
their accurate performance and upon which no dependence can be placed. The invention 
of Mr. Paillard in making the balance and hair spring of non-magnetic material and retain 
their proportions for adjustments to changes of temperature. These watches have been 
tested and strongly indorsed by the leading European scientists and by such well known 
Americans as Thos. A. Edison ; Prof. E. Thompson of the Thompson-Houston Electric 
Co. ; Prof. J. L. Morris, of the Sibley College of Mechanic Arts, Cornell University ; Mr. 
N. S. Passons, Supt. Brush Electric Co., Cleveland, and many others. The severe tests 
which the watches were subjected to proved them to be every thing that is claimed for 
them, 'their movements not being affected a particle. This testimony is strengthened by 
the expressed opinion of hundreds of leading watchmakers, electricians and others who 
declare them to be perfectly non-magnetic and the coming watch of the future. 

Messrs. Chandler & Co. are to be congratulated in placing before their customers a watch 
proving itself to be a thoroughly reliable timekeeper under all circumstances and amid the 
influences which hitherto have seriously affected the regular working of the best watches in use 



HUSSEY, HOYT & CO., 

Dealers in Iron Mining Stocks and Local Investments — No. 231 Bank St. 

r This was the second house in the United States to be identified with the new Gogebic 
iron range in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The firm is composed of Messrs. W. B. 
Hale, C. C. Ruthrauff, H. P. Hussey and George Hoyt. It naturally makes a specialty 
of the recognized Gogebic mines, but offers its services in the negotiation of all legiti- 
mate local securities, in which it has inet with marked success in the past year and a half. 
" Wildcat " speculation has now been so effectually eliminated from the new range that 
capital can invest in its properties as confidently as in the older mines, and with a surer 
and quicker profit. Expert reports and charts for the use of investors always on hand. 



THE CLEVELAND SHIP-BUILDING CO. 



H..D. Coffinberry, President ; Robert Wallace, Vice-President ; Wm. M. Fitch, Secre- 
tary — Iron Ships, Marine and Stationary Engines and Boilers, Blowing Engines, 
Steam Hammers, Mill Gearing and Casting — Detroit and Center Sts. 




" The Cleveland Ship-building Company are the successors of the Cuyahoga Steam Fur- 
nace Company, the pioneer concern of the kind in Ohio, established March 3, 1834. The 
capital stock of the company is $500,000, and the premises occupied as office, -workshops 



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and foundry comprise five large buildings at Detroit and Center streets and two fine new 
brick structures on both sides of the viaduct. 




The Leader of August 21 contained the following description of these works: 
The new yard of the Cleveland Ship-building Company is rapidly being put in shape 
on the grounds lately occupied by the old Cuyahoga Works, the Powell Tool Company, 
etc. The buildings occupied by these concerns have not only been largely torn down, 
but excavations have been made, extensive retaining walls built, roadways and railway 
tracks laid, piles driven to put the river front in good shape, all to make room for the new 
enterprise. The following notes are taken of what might be called the four departments 
in the undertaking — the ship-yard itself and its appliances, the boiler shop, the new furnace 
and the new machine shop. 

The yard room is obtained by excavating and building retaining wall against Detroit- 
street hill. The latter is eight feet wide at the bottom, four feet wide at top, twenty feet 
high, and the whole length is 350 feet. The space thus obtained has a river front of 700 
feet and an average depth back from the river of 125 feet. On this ground sufficient room 



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is secured, and arrangements are being made for two berths for vessels. One, 325 feet in 
length, is already completed, and a second, 350 feet in length, has been commenced. Be- 
tween these berths and the wall above referred to are other appliances of the ship-yard, 
much of it already placed, and the remainder rapidly getting into position. Plate and 
angle furnaces are each of them complete. Adjoining these are a 16^-foot plate planer 
angle shear, largest size, and an angle punch. Here the company also have three punches 
and shears built by themselves and weighing twelve tons each, and capable of punching or 
sheafing 1^ inch. steel. Rolls are also soon to be placed into position measuring 16^ feet 
between housings, and there is also to be a portable punch and shear. In the building 
above and covering these appliances is the mold loft, a building 40x180 feet, which is provided 
with a band saw for sawing out the molds for the ship. For the boiler shop thus far 
the company has a building 90x200 feet nearly complete in every detail, and for the 
work to be done there they have provided another punch and shear of their own make, same 
size as in the shipyard, angle punch and bevel shear, plate planer, 100-ton hydraulic flanger,. 
100-ton hydraulic riveter, 2-ton hydraulic crane for the Hanger, a 25-ton hydraulic crane for 
the riveter, and a plate furnace of size to heat an 8x16 plate all over at once. Connected 
with the boiler shop are seven large vaults under Detroit street for fuel, etc. 

The new foundry is located on Center street, 
near the yard and boiler shop. It has a building 
60x115 feet, with core rooms and ovens, stock 
house, boiler and engine rooms attached (boiler 
75 horse-power, engine 12x16 inches), the brick 
stack of the works reaching thirty feet above the 
viaduct, along which the whole building is lo- 
cated. This structure, while it is light and 
strong, makes a fine appearance. In putting 
in the floor of the foundry the company has 
given special thought to making loam and dry 
sand castings. Two-thirds of floor has a depth 
of seven feet of molding sand underlaid, with 
iron beams and holding-down bolts. The ap- 
pliances for work are three 20-ton steam cranes, 
two hand cranes of iron, hoist in stock house, 
etc. 

The building for the machine shop adjoin- 
ing the foundry is 106 feet on Detroit street, 
112 feet on the viaduct, is 60 feet wide and five 
stories high. The first and second floors are 
to be used as finishing shops, the third floor for 
patterns and storage, fourth floor for drawing 
and pattern shop, and the fifth floor, fronting 
on the viaduct, for offices. The building is be- 
ing put up by the Brooks Building Company,, 
and will probably be complete within thirty 
days. A viaduct arch lying between the foun- 
dry and machine shop will be occupied as an 
erecting shop. For this purpose it will be sup- 
plied with a fifteen-ton overhead traveling crane, driven by the machine shop engine. It 
will have a span of 50 feet, lift 30 feet 6 inches, and a travel of 75 feet. This erecting 
shop will be connected with the foundry by railway. 

The above are some of the preparations for work which apparently cannot be put into 
working order any too soon for the engagements the company already have on hand. They 
have under contract the building of five large triple expansion engines, ten large Scotch 
boilers capable of carrying 150 pounds of steam, and two steel steamers. The latter are 
for the Lackawanna Transportation Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., and are to be completed 
during the spring and summer of 1888. Both steamships will be of the same size, as fol- 
lows : 280 feet over all, 260 feet keel, 38 feet beam, and 25 feet hold. 

At the present writing these works have been completed in accordance with the prospec- 
tus as given above. 

Five hundred mechanics and laborers are employed in all, and $4000 per week is dis- 
bursed in wages. The output will run up to the millions annually, and embraces, besides 
iron vessels of all classes, every description of marine and stationary engines, boilers. 




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blowing engines, steam hammers, mill gearings and castings — -blast furnace engines, 
steam hammers and steam stamps for mining purposes being the leading specialties. 

Our first engraving presents a 
view of the celebrated "Steam- 
ship No. i,'" the pioneer steel 
steamer of the Lackawanna 
Transportation Company, built 
by the Cleveland Ship Building 
Company. Dimensions — 280 
feet long, 38 feet beam, 25 feet 
hold ; provided with 900-horse- 
power triple expansion engine 
(shown in second cut). These 
steamers combine facilities for 
carrying both coarse freight and 
merchandise, being equipped 
with the necessary hatches, gangways, hoisters, etc., for such work. 

Our second engraving illustrates a class of engines for which this firm are fast becoming 
popular, and is a correct drawing of the " triple expansion " furnished the steamer 
Aurora ; cylinders 24, 38 and 61 inches diameter by 42-inch stroke, supplied with steam 
at 165 pounds initial pressure by two steel boilers 12 feet diameter and 14 feet long. This 
engine has developed remarkable power and given perfect satisfaction to the owners, 
Messrs. Corrigan and others of Cleveland. Five new engines of the same description, but 
of smaller power, are under way at the Cleveland Ship Building Company's works. 

This company, as the successors of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, continue to 
build the blowing engines [see third cut] which made their predecessors famous, and speci- 
mens completed or under construction can always be seen at the works, the object being 
to keep them in stock that orders may be rilled at short notice. They also enjoy a very 
large trade in steam helve hammers [fourth cut] and having patterns, of three sizes — 1,000, 
2,000 and 4,000 pounds — can respond promptly to any sudden demand. President 
Coffinberry, a native of Ohio, and Vice-President Wallace, of Scotch birth, were among 
the founders of the Globe Iron works, of which prominent industry Mr. Coffinberry was 
business manager and Mr. Wallace superintendent, and were also president and secretary 
respectively of the Globe Ship Building Company, retaining those positions until July, 
1887, and in those capacities built the Onoko, the William Chisholm, the Dmius Cole, the 
Spokane, the International and the Record. Secretary Fitch, who for nineteen years was 
secretary of the Winslow line of steamers and sailing vessels, joined Messrs. Coffinberry and 
Wallace on the first of January last, when the present company was organized. 



W. H. CROWL. 



Wholesale Pig Iron — No. 121 Superior St. 

Mr. Crowl has had much valuable experience in handling pig iron, having established 
himself in that business at No. 122 Water street, previous to which he had been connected 
with the iron ore and pig iron trade for many years. He is a native of Troy, N. Y„ came 
to Cleveland in 1844, and has devoted nearly forty years of his life to the development of 
Cleveland's resources as an iron market. , Early in the present year he removed to hand- 
some offices at No. 121 Superior street, where'he possesses every facility for doing a larger 
business than ever before, his transactions for 1886 footing up 70,000 tons and extending 
to iron manufacturing centers throughout the United States and Canada. His leading 
specialties are " Neshannock," "Charlotte," " Onondaga " and " Globe " pig, and Rossie 
iron ore, for which he has the sole agency in this market. 



JAY ODELL & SONS, 

Record Searchers, Abstract Makers, Conveyancers and Notaries Public — Wick Block, 
Adjoining Court-house, Under Bank. 

In this State the functions of the conveyancer are quite distinct from those of the attor- 
ney, and one or more conveyancers' officers are found in each of the principal cities and 




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towns. Mr. Jay Odell is the oldest representative of this useful class in Cleveland, hav- 
ing devoted himself uninterruptedly to the intricacies of record-searching, abstract 
making and conveyancing since 1852. In 1876 Mr. Cocad entered into partnership and 
retired in 1883, when Messrs. Arthur and Alien A. Odell, sons of the senior member, 
•entered the office as his associates, and the style became Jay Odell & Sons. Domiciled in 
spacious and well-appointed offices but a step from the county court-bouse, provided with 
every requisite facility, and with the advantages of long experience and intimate acquaint- 
ance with the records, this firm is prepared to perform any service in their line with ex- 
actitude, promptly and satisfactorily. Parties desiring abstracts of records of any date 
since the organization of Cuyahoga county, or any information in reference thereto, will 
find this firm absolutely reliable. They also execute every description of legal papers re- 
lating to the transfer of real estate, and in their capacity of notaries public attend to the 
making of affidavits, the taking of depositions, etc. 



BROOKS & CO.. 



Publishers, Printers, Wholesale and Retail Stationers and Blank Book Manufacturers 
— Nos. 98 and 100 Superior St. 

This establishment, occupying the entire hand- 
some new building herewith illustrated, 28 feet 
front and extending from Superior to Long street, 
150 feet, five stories in height, was first opened 
for business by Messrs. Brooks & Co., January 19, 
1887, and is the most complete establishment of 
'ihwf' 1 III ■ nil, its kind in Cleveland, if not in the State. The 

IP^Il r MWBa iiiW ^^iii^Pl ffliJ v ... structure itself is an architectural ornament to the 

city, and the firm who make it their business home 
is one of which all Clevelanders may feel justly 
proud. The business career of these gentlemen is 
thus briefly sketched by the Cleveland Leader of 
January 20, 1887: "Messrs. Stephen E. and 
Arthur S. Brooks first embarked in business to- 
gether in 187 1 as booksellers and stationers at No. 
137 Superior street. Success attended them from 
the start, and two years later, finding that their 
constantly growing business demanded more room 
and increased facilities, they moved to No. 247 
Superior street, where they associated Mr. E. L. 
Schinkel with them, under the firm name of 
Brooks, Schinkel & Co., and rivaled the leading 
houses in the State in the extent of their business. 
In 1875 Mr. S. E. Brooks retired from the firm as 
then composed, and locating himself at No. 137 
Superior street, the former quarters of the old 
firm, laid the foundation of the present business 
as manufacturing stationers. In 1877 his business 
had increased to such an extent that more com- 
modious quarters were secured at No. 117 Superior 
street, and in 1879, on the retirement of Messrs, 
Brooks, Schinkel & Co., his former partner, Mr. 
A. S. Brooks, again became associated with him, 
and the firm name of Brooks & Co. was resumed. 
The years following 1879 witnessed repeated ex- 
tensions in their storeroom and manufacturing departments to accommodate their ever- 
increasing business, until they occupied over seventeen thousand square feet of floor space, 
extending from Superior to Frankfort streets, and embracing the upper floors of Nos. 12, 
14, 16 and 18 on the latter street. Foreseeing the necessity of securing still more room and 
more convenient methods of handling stock, the lease of the present magnificent new build- 
ing was effected." 

In every department the equipment is of the best, and the facilities on every floor 
are arranged with a view to the speedy and satisfactory transaction of business on a 
large scale. In the basement is the boiler and engine that furnish power for running their 




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printing presses, ruling machines, paper cutters and other machinery necessary to their busi- 
ness, and elevator, and furnish steam for heating the building. The space not required for this 
purpose is devoted to the storage of stock, and here may be found immense quantities of twines, 
writing and copying inks, foreign and domestic, from celebrated makers, etc. The salesrooms 
and offices are located on the first floor, which is elegantly and appropriately fitted up, beauti- 
fully stocked, and one of the most attractive places in the city. The second floor is the 
wholesale department, and is packed to repletion with endless lines of white and tinted 
book, writing and ledger papers in every desirable grade, together with a vast assortment 
of envelopes in all sizes, shapes and colors. The composing room, large, airy and perfectly 
lighted, is situated on the third floor, the press room on the fourth, and on the fifth the 
superb bindery, equipped with every modern approved labor-saving machine and improve- 
ment, including ruling, embossing and paper-cutting machinery of the latest patterns. 

This house has the sole agency of the hektograph and the Edison mimeograph, indispensable 
to every business office, from which as many fac simile copies of letters as may be desired can 
be produced with small expenditure of time and labor. They make a specialty of letter files 
and cabinets and cabinet supplies. They carry also a great variety of inks, including all 
the leading American and imported makes, notably the celebrated Stafford ; also all the 
best domestic and foreign lead pencils, including a very fine quality manufactured for them 
under their own firm name. The same can be said in regard to steel pens. Besides carry- 
ing all of the excellent makes, they are sole agents for Leon, Isaacs & Co. and C. A. Vincent 
& Co.'s pens. Their stock of blank books, very largely of their own manufacture, is equal 
in magnitude and variety to any in the country. Messrs. Brooks & Co. have a trade that 
extends over most of the States and is constantly widening its circle. As successful publishers 
they are known the country over. The firm are now situated very advantageously for the 
enlargement of their trade, have an established and enviable reputation in the specialties 
named and in the manufacture of railroad office and bank supplies, catalogue work, etc.. 
and have reason to look forward confidently to a still greater degree of substantial appreci- 
ation in the future. 



THE MAGNA CHARTA SILVER MINING AND TUNNEL 

COMPANY. 

James Farmer, President; James A. Anderson, Vice-President; E. J. Farmer, Gen- 
eral Manager and Treasurer — Mines at Tomichi, Colorado ; Office No. 211 Su- 
perior St. 

If an accurate history of silver mining in Colorado is ever written, it will prove a narra- 
tive of absorbing interest from title-page to "finis." The country itself is a land of mys- 
teries and of wonders, and was opened to settlement by a class of hardy adventurers whose 
wild life and brave deeds have seldom if ever been equaled. Then came the daring silver 
hunters and their fabulous discoveries. Eastern men, Eastern enterprise and Eastern capital 
have wrought a beneficent change, and continue to work new and greater wonders in this 
wonderland. Great mining shafts and tunnels pierce the auriferous mountains everywhere ; 
the throbbing steam engine and power drills have replaced the plodding miner with his 
pick and spade. 

The formation of companies for the development of the still hidden wealth of the Colo- 
rado mountains continues. One of the most promising and successful of these that has, come 
under our notice is the Magna Charta Silver Mining and Tunnel Co., whose mining prop- 
erty of 200 acres is located at Tomichi, Gunnison county, Colorado, and principal office at 
No. 211 Superior street, Cleveland. This company was incorporated under the laws of 
Colorado in 1883, with a capital stock of $2,500,000. The property is among the most 
valuable in the State, and bids fair to prove a bonanza to its owners. 

The stock of the company is steadily advancing in price, and we know of no better invest- 
ment than would be a liberal block of the same. Most of it is held by citizens of Cleveland 
and adjacent towns. A mining authority says: "It is acknowledged that Colorado is the 
richest portion of the globe in gold and silver mines, and that Gunnison county is the rich- 
est portion of Colorado ; while the people there point to Tomichi as the richest portion of 
that mining region. The Magna Charta Tunnel, therefore, is located at the very heart of 
the richest mining region of the world, and in a mountain that is claimed by mining men 
to have no superior in the quality of its mineral veins. Tomichi City, the centre of this 
mining region, is situated at the head of Tomichi creek, close up against the western slope- 
of the Continental Divide, and is sixty miles south of Leadville in the very heart of the 
Rocky Mountains, and of the great mineral belt of the State. It is situated between two' 



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railroads, a branch of the Union Pacific passing only four miles to the north, while the 
Denver & Rio Grande passes only twelve miles to the south. Gunnison City with its smel- 
ters is only forty miles to the westward, while the great anthracite and bituminous coal 
fields of Crested Butte are only sixty miles away. No portion of Colorado is more accessible. 
It is evident that the men who, in 1880, first raised the cry of ' To the Gunnison,' knew what 
they were about, for it was then that those who had in vain hunted for gold and silver 
through other lands first turned their wistful eyes to the Gunnison and were rewarded." 



THE L. SCHLATHER BREWING CO. 

JL. Schlather, President ; M. E. Wagar, Secretary — Manufacturers of Lager Beer — 

Cor. York and Carroll Sts. 

The splendid brewery herewith 
illustrated is the outcome of a life- 
time's close application and hard 
labor on the part of Mr. L. Schlather, 
who emigrated from Germany to 
Cleveland in 1852, when a youth. 
For the first five years he labored 
daily in a brewery, acquiring a thor- 
ough knowledge of the business, 
theoretical and practical, mechanical 
and commercial, and then embarked 
in the same pursuit on his own ac- 
count, gradually increasing his plant 
and facilities until he now finds him- 
self at the head of the most exten- 
sive beer brewing establishment in 
Northern Ohio, three stories in 
height, built of brick, 180x220 feet, 
with engine and boiler-house, keg- 
house, cooper-shop, stables, etc., attached. The equipment is first class in every depart- 
ment and embrace's all modern improvements in processes, ice machines and apparatus. 
One hundred men are employed in brewery, office and delivery service, and the output, 
pronounced equal to any beer ever brewed in America, reaches an annual average of 80,000 
barrels. It is a great favorite in the city, handled by nearly every reputable dealer in .Cleve- 
land, and is shipped in car-load lots to all points east, west and south within a radius of 
100 miles or more. 

The L. Schlather Brewing Company was incorporated and the mammoth brewery of 
which we present a view built-in 1884. The plant represents an investment of half a mil- 
lion dollars, and is by long odds the largest and most complete in the State, outside of 
Cincinnati. 



THE CONGER & COLLINGS MANTEL CO., 



Dealefs in and Manufacturers of Wood and Slate Mantels, Grates, Fenders and Fire- 
place Appurtenances — Tiles of every Description — Geo. F. Conger, President ; C. 
A. Scott, Vice-President; C. H. Collings, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The above firm, though scarcely a year old, is nevertheless one of the best known retail 
houses in the city. The prestige they derived from succeeding the A. S. Herenden 
Furniture Co., than which has never been a more widely advertised concern in Ohio, placed 
them at once in the foremost rank of Cleveland's retail houses. All the gentlemen com- 
prising the company are well-known residents of this city, formerly connected with the A. 
S. Herenden Furniture Co., and their past experience is of unquestionable value to them 
in their new departure. During the period they have been engaged for themselves their 
success has been more than their most sanguine hopes had anticipated, and by careful 
attention to business and hard work they have achieved for themselves a most enviable 
reputation. 

The elaborate decoration of the fire-place, which fashion dictated and modern artists 
have designed, not only add materially to making the "home beautiful " and are a vast 
improvement over the staid, solemn styles of a few years back, but also accomplish much 




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more effectively their primal object, that of heating and ventilating. The Conger & Col- 
lings Mantel Co. is the only house in the city devoted exclusively to the sale of fire-place trim- 
mings ; they both manufacture from original designs of their own and keep in stock the 
products of the best houses in the country, such as J. S. Conover & Co., New York city, 
and J. G. & J. F. Low, Chelsea, Mass. (celebrated art tiles). Their handsome new ware- 
rooms in the Cyclorama building, Nos. 217 to 223 Euclid avenue, allow the display of their 
large and varied line to the best advantage, affording unequaled opportunities to the pur- 
chaser in making selections. No stranger should leave the city without making a point of 
visiting this store. Besides the regular stock of mantels and grates are exquisite novelties 
in brass and wrought iron to please the most fastidious taste. 



CLEVELAND NATIONAL BANK. 

S. S. Warner, President; James Parnell, Vice-President; P. M. Spencer, Cashier — 
Capital Stock, $500,000 — N. W. Corner Seneca and Superior Sts. 

This flourishing institu- 
tion was chartered May 
20, 1883, and for some 
four years conducted bus- 
iness at No. 179 Superior 
street, removing last 
April to its present eligible 
and advantageous loca- 
tion at the northwest cor- 
ner of Superior and Sen- 
eca streets, convenient to 
the mercantile and bank- 
ing center, where it has 
secured a larger share 
than ever of the confi- 
dence and patronage of 
the business community. 
One entire floor, 30 x 100 
feet, of the building in- 
dicated is occupied, and 
is fitted up in the most 
elegant and substantial 
manner. A magnificent 
and thoroughly fire and 
burglar-proof vault, sup- 
plemented by a capacious 
safe of the same char- 
acter, form a portion of 
the equipment, and, com- 
bined with the elegantly 
appointed furnishings of 
banking, president's and 
directors' rooms, render 
this one of the most attractive establishments of the kind in the country. A general 
banking business in all legitimate branches is transacted, including collections, loans, dis- 
counts, the deposits of individuals, firms and corporations, etc. The institution is a thor- 
oughly sound and conservative, yet liberal one, and is performing its full share toward the 
development and encouragement of industrial and mercantile enterprise. Subjoined is its 
latest official report to the Comptroller of the Currency, August 1, 1887: 

Resources— Loans and discounts, $1,042,877.47; overdrafts, $695.45; U.S. bonds to 
secure circulation, $50,000; due from approved reserve agents, $118,123.71; due from 
other National banks, $112,108.16; due from State banks and bankers, $10,137.19; real 
estate, furniture and fixtures, $4,539.32 ; current expenses and taxes paid, $6,348.01; 
premiums paid, $5,000; checks and other cash items, $3,354.42 ; exchanges for clearing- 
house, $8,832.50; bills of other banks, $29,710; fractional paper currency, nickels and 
cents, $232.31 ; specie, $69,147; legal tender notes, $40,000; due from U. S. Treasurer 
other than 5 per cent, redemption fund, $2,250; total, $i,5<>3,355-54. Liabilities— Capital 




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stock paid in, $500,000; surplus fund, $40,000 ; undivided profits, $18,019.04 ; National bank 
notes outstanding, $44,500; dividends'unpaid, $84; individual deposits subject to check,. 
$647,725.75; demand certificates of deposit, $87,659.63 ; cashier's checks outstandings 
$25,000; due to other National banks, $75,744.20 ; due to State banks and bankers, 
$64,622.92; total $1,503,355.54. 

The business public of Cleveland is indebted to Mr. P. M. Spencer, the cashier, for this 
handsome accession to local banking facilities. Mr. Spencer's career is worthy of special 
note. He is of English descent and his parentage is of honorable mention. He was 
born at Fort Ann, Washington county, N. Y., March 1, 1844. He was brought up on a 
farm and received his education in the public schools and an academy. "When the war 
broke out he was only seventeen years old, but his patriotism led him to enter the volun- 
teer service with the 123d New York infantry. He followed his regiment through the 
sanguinary battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, till 
1863, when he was mustered out of the army on account of protracted sickness. About 
a year after his return from the war he came to Cleveland and became messenger in the 
First National Bank. He evinced precisely that kind of ability needed in the banking 
business, and soon received a position inside. An opportunity was all young Spencer- 
needed. From this small beginning he rose, through the regular order of promotion, to 
assistant cashier, occupying that position for many years. His capacity for financiering was- 
very fine, and being ambitious to launch a banking enterprise of his own, he set himself to 
work at organizing the Cleveland National Bank. This he accomplished, and the bank opened 
its doors in two months, with its originator as cashier. He always took an active interest in 
politics — an interest growing out of a desire to see the proper laws enacted and enforced. 
He was elected to the Council from the Fourth ward in 1877, and no better proof that he 
gave good satisfaction can be cited than that his constituents have returned him as their 
representative at every subsequent election — '79, '82, '84 and '86. Mr. Spencer has been 
one of the most valuable members of the local assembly, uniting first-class business skill 
with honesty, thorough familiarity with municipal matters and spirit in debate. He was 
vice-president of the Council in 1884 and was reelected. Mr. Spencer has been at vari- 
ous times on the most important committees, including the legislative, finance, judiciary, 
house of correction, claims and department examination — and is now chairman of the 
finance committee. On the finance committee he has been of especial service, and many 
measures, resulting in economy to the city, have been carried through by him. He was 
for three years chairman of the Republican city central committee, and is now the chair- 
man of. the Congressional committee for the Twenty-first district. He is a trustee of the 
Homoeopathic College. It should not be omitted that he possesses, in harmony with 
other qualities, liberality, affability and philanthropy. 



WOODS, JENKS & CO., 



Manufacturers and Dealers in Lumber — No. 5 Carter St. 

The leading lumber firm in this leading lumber market is Woods, Jenks & Co., whose 
office at No. 5 Carter street is the scene of more and heavier transactions in this particu- 
lar branch of business than are conducted by any two rival houses here. Woods, Perry 
& Co. were the founders as long ago as i860, and continued at its head until April of 
1886, when the present firm became the owners. As at present composed it is a consolida- 
tion of Messrs. Robert Jenks, Guy and Ralph Grey (the remaining representatives of Woods, 
Perry & Co. after the withdrawal of Mr. L. W. Perry) with the incorporated firm of Pack, 
Woods & Co. of Oscoda, Mich., of which concern Messrs. John L. Woods, George W. 
Pack and Charles L. Pack are residents of Cleveland, and Greene Pack and Edwin F. 
Holmes of Oscoda, at which latter place extensive lumbering and milling operations are 
conducted and the products shipped to this port for a market. The plant here comprises 
five acres of yards with docks and switches and a splendid modern planing-mill which manu- 
factures vast quantities of doors, sash, blinds, mouldings, flooring, ceiling, cabinet stuff 
and every description of finished lumber. The annual capacity of the company (which is 
usually taxed to the utmost) is 80,000,000 feet, and besides supplying a large part of the 
local demand the firm ship heavily to buyers and consumers all over Ohio and the States 
to the eastward as far north as Boston' and south to Baltimore. Some faint notion of the 
magnitude of their business may be drawn from the fact that from two hundred to five 
hundred men are employed, the weekly pay-roll averaging $5,000 in summer and $1,500 
in winter. 



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THE HALL TYPE-WRITER. 



Simplest, Cheapest and Best — Payne & Pratt, Managers, No 117 Public Square. 




Writing by machinery has been thoroughly tested of late years, with the result of its gen- 
eral acceptance, for most ordinary purposes, as superior to pen work. It is a known fact 
that most persons who have much original writing to do — authors, editors, ministers, et id 
genus omne — are abominably poor penmen, and to these and their printers, correspondents 
and others upon whom devolves the task of deciphering their lucubrations, the type-writer 
is a boon indeed, since, once accustomed to its use, the manipulator works as unconsciously 
and with less fatiguing labor than attends the employment of the pen, while the work is 
perfect and involves no loss of writer's time and patience in the reading. The same re- 
marks hold good, in a greater or less degree, as applied to the labor of the copyist, the 
corresponding clerk, the telegrapher, the stenographic reporter and others to whose relief 
the type-writer has come. But it should not be forgotten that, like other wonderful inven- 
tions, the type-writer has shown itself susceptible of vast improvement over its original 
form, nor that the machine which the year before last, last year or last spring was supposed 
to combine in itself all that was desirable or even possible, is to-day in fact a superannuated 
device, outstripped in speed, accuracy, convenience, beauty of style and workmanship and 
perfection of operation by a younger rival. This is a fact that is easily demonstrated to 
the satisfaction of any intelligent man conversant with the subject in question who will 
take the time and trouble to compare the new model Hall type- writer of 1887, awarded 
the medal of superiority over the Remington and the Caligraph at the semi-centennial fair 
of the American Institute, New York, and the John Scott medal by the Franklin Institute, 
of Philadelphia — the latter a rare honor, conferred only in recognition of positive advance. 
The work of the old-style keyed machines is blurred and dauby, they use but one style of 

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type, which can only be changed by a skilled mechanic at great expense of time and 
trouble, and they are in all respects behind the times and of comparatively little tise in com- 
petition with the Hall, which is constructed upon an entirely different and novel principle. 
Actual trial has proved it equal in every respect to any of its predecessors or rivals, and as 
a whole superior to all of them. It is simple, complete, portable, and is capable of per- 
forming a wide range of work in the best manner, including foreign languages, the filling 
of blanks, and the execution of tabular work equal to that of the skilled printer. It oper- 
ates equally well on paper of any ordinary width, length or thickness, postal cards, envel- 
opes, etc., ruled or unruled, with any desired space between words or lines, the impression 
of each letter being perfectly clear, as the inked type comes directly in contact with the 
paper, thus doing away with the ribbon and preventing the blurred appearance that charac- 
terizes the work of all other type-writers. Corrections and alterations are readily made, 
and the ink used is the best made for copying, either by letter press, hektograph or slate- 
ograph. With a special type plate it does manifolding equal to the other writers. 

In the matter of speed it is the equal of any other writer, as is shown both by the mechan- 
ism, which is simple and quickly responsive and places the work most completely under the 
immediate control of the operator, and by the fact that contested trials of speed have been 
made with it against the other writers in the hands of the best and most expert operators, and 
in no such case has the Hall been beaten. The styles of type furnished include many distinct 
faces, from which the purchaser can select to suit himself, the price of each being only a 
dollar, and he can substitute one for another in a few seconds at option. In addition, type 
plates are furnished in all languages having an alphabet, including Greek, Sanscrit, Japanese, 
Armenian, Bohemian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Danish, 
Russian, Bulgarian, Bohemian, etc., with from two to five styles in each language ; also 
upward of a dozen special plates for special purposes. The price of the writer complete, 
with any style of type desired, containing 82 characters, is only $40. 

Pamphlet containing full particulars and scores of testimonials from lawyers, editors, 
ministers, telegraph operators, stenographers and others sent to any address on application 
to the Cleveland managers, Payne & Pratt, No. 117 Public Square, where a full line of 
these wonderful machines may be examined by any one in search of a perfect type-writer. 



THE MAXWELL BLUE STONE CO. 



R. H. Maxwell, President and Manager; E. H. Perdue, Vice-President; R. R. Van 
Tine, Secretary and Treasurer — Miners and Dealers in Euclid Blue Stone Flag- 
ging, Steps, Platforms, Sills, etc. — Mill and Quarries, South Euclid — Office, Room 
17 Nottingham Block, No. 89 Euclid Ave. 

Among the largest producers of blue stone in the country is the Maxwell Blue Stone 
Company, doing business in this city. The quarries of the company are located in South 
Euclid, and are not only extensive, but produce the finest quality of blue stone quarried. 
In 1877 the quarries were first opened, the firm then consisting of Maxwell & McFarland ; 
in 1884 it became Maxwell & Co., and in 1887 the present company was organized. The 
quarry proper, covering some fifteen acres, allows of immense quantities being taken out, 
the shipments averaging ten car-loads daily. All parts of the Union draw on these 
quarries, and the reputation of the stone for building purposes has become thoroughly 
established, as it is ornamental, handsome and easily worked. The buildings comprising 
the works consist of a saw-mill 60x25 feet, with four gangs of saws, boiler and engine rooms, 
hoisting apparatus, in fact, every improvement known to the business. The constant de- 
mands which are being made on the company by builders enables them to give steady 
employment to upward of forty men, which, with the improved process they have of 
extracting the rock, and ample facilities for cutting it into the desired patterns, enables 
them to produce and ship on short notice any orders that may be given them, whether 
large or small. 

Mr. R. H. Maxwell, the president and manager of the company, is a resident of South 
Euclid, where he has general supervision of the company's works. E. H. Perdue, the 
vice-president, has general supervision of the sales department, and is a well-known 
Clevelander. R. R. Van Tine, secretary and treasurer, is a native of this city, well 
known and generally respected for prompt business methods. The past season's business 
has been unusually large, and bids fair to continue so, as the stone is becoming more gen- 
erally adopted in all sections. The company is prompt, thoroughly reliable, and can be 
depended upon in all contracts. 



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UNION STEEL SCREW COMPANY. 

Fayette Brown, President; J. H.Wade, Vice-President; S. Sickels, Secretary; J. A. 
Bidwell, Superintendent; S. F. Chisholm, Assistant Superintendent — Manufac- 
turers of Bessemer Steel Wood-Screws, Small Nails and Tacks — Corner Case and 
Payne Aves. 

The substitution of Bessemer steel for iron in the manufacture of screws, nails, brads, 
tacks, etc., marked an era in the progress of new ideas and emphatically " filled a long- 
felt want." While the first cost of steel goods may be slightly in advance of iron, there 
is no room for comparison in quality, and the actual saving far more than equals the dif- 
ference in price. 

The first establishment in this country to make use of steel in this special industry was 
the Union Steel Screw Company of Cleveland, incorporated in 1871 with a capital stock 
of $1,000,000. It was not, however, until 1873 tnat the company completed its prepara- 
tions — the erection of an immense factory and the construction of machinery — and com- 
menced actual operations. The works comprise two massive brick buildings at the inter- 
section of Case and Payne avenues, one of six stories, 50 x 200 feet, the other of five 
floors, 40 x 150 feet. ' The outfit of improved machinery is complete; three hundred and 
fifty men, boys and girls are employed, and the capacity of the establishment (which is 
usually taxed to the utmost) is 12,000 gross of screws of all sizes and about three tons of 
nails and tacks per diem. The entire output is distributed within the United States, and 
the trade of the company extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. 

The officers of the company have from the first been conspicuous as citizens and busi- 
ness men, as well as being efficient in their several capacities. The late Stillman Witt, 
well known for his connection with railroad and manufacturing enterprises, was an active 
promoter of this enterprise and its first president. His successor was the late Henry 
Chisholm, who was also president of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, and to whose 
care and attention is due the great prestige attained by the company in the quality of its 
products. 

Mr. Fayette Brown, former vice-president and now president, is extensively connected 
with iron mining and manufacturing industries in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. 

Vice-President Wade is prominently identified with many railroad, banking and manu- 
facturing enterprises. 

Secretary Sickels, a New-Yorker by birth, but identified since i860 with the business 
interests of Cleveland, has general management of the details of the business. 

Superintendent Bidwell, who came from Providence, R. I., to supervise the construc- 
tion of machinery and works, is a mechanic of large experience in this line of industry, 
and whose skill is well attested by the model plant here erected. 

Assistant Superintendent Chisholm (also of the Chisholm shovel works) has immediate 
charge of the details of manufacturing, and having been connected with the company 
from the very first, has a thorough knowledge of the requirements in his department. 



RUNYON, STUBBS & MACK. 



Lake Superior Iron Ore — Room 43 Grand Arcade, No. 101 St. Clair St. 

The discovery and use of iron in various arts and manufactures dates back to the Roman 
period. Some authorities claim its use extensively previous to the Bronze age, but as 
it is a matter of conjecture and hard to determine, no definite data can be obtained. In 
our own history and day it has entered into nearly every branch of manufactures, and is 
one of the most important products known to civilization. The various districts and 
localities from which it is procured are scattered throughout the length and breadth of 
the land, some celebrated for the uniformity of their product, others of less note and rep- 
utation. Since the adoption of the Bessemer method of producing steel, which has 
become general during the past ten years, certain grades have come into greater demand 
by reason of their general fitness and superiority, among which are the Lake Superior 
ores from the various districts in that locality, the Gogebic, Menominee and Marquette 
ranges contributing largely a superior quality much in demand. The purity and value 
of Bessemer ore from mines in this district has greatly stimulated the production, and 
to-day one of the most important industries in the Northwest is the mining and shipping 
of Lake Superior ores. 

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and shipping of iron ore, the above firm of Runyon, Stubbs & Mack has gained an ex 
tensive reputation. From a small beginning they have, by perseverance and careful 
attention to business, succeeded in building up a large and prosperous trade. The grade 
of ores handled exclusively are from these ranges of the highest quality, and enter ex- 
tensively into the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Their offices, located in the Arcade 
building, are central, thus securing the prompt transaction of business. The members- 
comprising the firm are W. C. Runyon, J. B. Stubbs and W. E. Mack, and their success 
is simply a new illustration of the old adage: "Energy and perseverance conquer all 
things. 1 



THE OMEGA STOVE AND GRATE CO. 

J. L. Smith, President; Jay Burns, Secretary; E. D. Porter, Treasurer— Manufac- 
turers of Dr. J. G. Smith's Fire-Place Furnace and Ventilating Stoves— No. 89 
Euclid Ave. 

The Omega Stove and Grate Company 
was incorporated as above, with a capital 
stock of $150,000, last January, and within 
a month was in the full tide of successful 
operation with 100 men at work on their 
patterns at the foundry of the Myers & 
Osborne Company, Nos. 213, 215 and 217 
West River street, their manufacturing 
capacity, which is taxed to the utmost, be- 
ing 500 fire-place furnaces and ventilating 
stoves daily. The liberality of the com- 
pany in the use of printers' ink, and in 
availing itself of all legitimate channels 
in bringing its splendid goods before the 
public, has borne generous fruit, as is 
shown in the great demand for these fur- 
naces and stoves from all parts of the coun- 
try — a demand that is encouraged and fos- 
tered by the trade, who recognize in these 
improved goods the best that have ever been 
introduced, notwithstanding their extreme 
cheapness, all things considered, 
are too generally known to require special 




The evil effects of breathing vitiated ai 
elaboration here, even if we had the 
R. J. Dunglison, in his treatise on physiol- 
ogy, in which he says: "Air once 
breathed is unfitted for further respira- 
tion, being no longer pure. The amount 
of oxygen in it is found to be greatly les- 
sened. To insure perfect respiration the 
air that is breathed must be renewed and 
not allowed to be contaminated. Let it 
be remembered that the first and most im- 
portant object is to give an outlet to the 
impure air. Amid the comforts of modern 
homes, danger to health or life may ensue 
from the very conveniences which surround 
their inmates. We are so constituted that 
pure atmospheric air is essential not only 
to health, but to life. Atmospheric air is 
composed of two gaseous substances, 
known to us as nitrogen and oxygen, 
the latter being the all-important element 
in respiration." 

It is to do away with the dangers re- 
ferred to that the Omega fire-place furnaces 
and ventilating stoves (patented by Dr. J. 



space. 



briefly quote Prof. 




G. Smith) are designed. They are both 



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powerful heater.- and 




feet ventilators. This company has the exclusive rigiit to 
make and use independent horizontal and 
continuous air-flues formed within an air- 
chamber at the back and sides of an open 
stove and fire-place, by which arrangement 
the cold air, as it enters the air-chamber 
from the outside at the bottom, is made 
to pass horizontally four times across the 
back and sides of the air-chamber before 
entering the top air-flues to be discharged, 
ntensely heated, into the room. In all 
other air-chambers in use the cold air 
rushes up the back before it has time to be- 
come heated, passing less than three feet, 
while by this arrangement the air, travers- 
ing to and fro across the back and sides, 
travels over fourteen feet before entering 
| the top air flues over the fire, the air 
Ij thereby being retained against or in contact 
"with the heated back and sides in its upward 
course long enough to become thoroughly 
hair the amount of fuel ordinarily used to give the same amount 



tha. 

The great advantage of this arrangement over "other air-chambers in 



heated, requiring le 
of heat to the room. 

use will thus be readily seen, and its gen- 
eral adoption is therefore confidently rec- 
ommended as the only method by which 
cold air taken from without can be properly 
and thoroughly heated, especially with 
moderate fires. This arrangement, in con- 
nection with its original top air-flues pass- 
ing directly over the fire, thereby utilizing 
the great amount of heat otherwise lost by 
passing with the drafts up the chimney, 
combined with its artistic beauty, its sim- 
plicity, its perfect ventilation, combined 
with great heating powers, and the readi- 
ness with which it may be set into any fire- 
place in use, constitute its undisputed 
superiority over all other fire-place and 
stove arrangements now in use. The same 
principle governs in the construction of the 
*' Omega" stoves. 

The officers of the company, named in 
our caption, are all citizens of Cleveland, and give their exclusive attention to the manu- 
facture of these goods. Ex-Governor Hubbard, of St. Paul, Minn., is one of the princi- 
pal stockholders. 




E. B. HALE & CO., 

Bankers — No. 233 Bank Street. 

Conspicuous among the private banking institutions of Cleveland is that of-E. B. Hale 
& Co., No. 233 Bank street, the oldest and one of the soundest concerns of the kind in 
Northern Ohio, founded by Mr. E. B. Hale as long ago as 1852. Mr. W. H. Barriss 
became a partner in 1866, and Mr. W. B. Hale, a son of the senior member, was admitted 
in 1879. The firm, advantageously located at the north end of the Mercantile Bank 
building, with elegantly appointed first floor offices, backed by ample capital and experi- 
ence, and enjoying a high reputation for upright dealing and promptitude, is well-pre- 
pared to undertake all legitimate commissions offered in the way of loans, discounts, col- 
lections, the purchase and sale of exchange, the handling of investment securities, etc. 
The firm do a very heavy business in foreign exchange, keep regular accounts in London, 
Dublin and Paris, and maintain correspondence with six leading New York houses. They 
also furnish drafts and letters of credit good in any part of the civilized world. 



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BURROWS & BOSWORTH, 



Dealers in Hardware, Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Etc. — Nos. 1222 and 1224 Euclid Ave. 

Among the extensive hardware dealers located in the eastern portion of the city the 
above firm not only represent the largest outlay in stock but handle the leading lines of 
hardware, stoves and ranges, and in consequence control the largest trade. Established 
in 1874 at No. 1218 Euclid avenue, the firm then consisting of Burrows & Moore, they 
removed to the present location in March, 1882, on the retirement of Mr. Moore and the 
admission of N. C. Bosworth. The specialties which they represent are the " Garland " 
stoves and ranges, and the Richardson & Boynton Co.'s heaters and furnaces, on which 
they have built up a large trade. In the general line which they carry may be found all 
staple goods in builders', blacksmiths' and contractors' hardware, in addition to cutlery 
and smaller specialties. Mr. Burrows, the senior member, a New-Yorker by birth, is 
well versed in hardware in all its branches, prompt, reliable and a thorough business 
man. N. C. Bosworth, the junior member, is an Ohioan, who, during his fifteen years' 
connection with this trade, has gained the confidence and respect of the business com- 
munity and done much towards the advancement of the firm's interests. 

The number of salesmen, workmen and clerks in their employ is twenty, and the large 
and handsome stores which they occupy are an honor to the city. The business is* now- 
confined chiefly to East Cleveland and surrounding towns and villages. 



FRANK DOWD, D. D. S. 

Artificial Teeth Without Plates — No. 44 Euclid Avenue, 

There is nothing so detrimental to health as bad teeth. This fact has been clearly es- 
tablished by the most prominent physicians, and to-day stands undisputed. Not only does 
health suffer, but the miseries of toothache, the unpleasant odors of decaying teeth, and 
the disgusting appearance which they present are certainly enough in themselves to com- 
mend scientific dentistry in every branch. The process of inserting artificial teeth with- 
out plates was first established in Cleveland by Dr. F. Dowd in 1885, since which time it 
has been thoroughly tested, and received the indorsement of our most prominent citizens. 
The principal advantages of this system over all others are : I- — It does away with the 
extraction of roots. 2 — It supplies all lost teeth without covering the roof of the mouth. 
3 — They are as good for mastication as the natural teeth. 4 — There is positively no injury 
to the mucous membrane or to the remaining teeth. 5 — There is positively no obstruc- 
tion to the flow of saliva during mastication ; thus you have nature to assist digestion. 
6 — There is positively no inflammation of the roof of the mouth, as is caused by the use of 
plates. 7 — There is no danger of swallowing them, as is frequently the case with plates. 
8 — There is no dropping down of the plate, because there is 710 plate used, and the teeth 
are as firm as the natural teeth. 9 — They are as easily kept clean as the natural teeth. 
These and many other claims have been fully substantiated by the many who are using 
this class of work, and it is beyond the question of a doubt that this system will in time 
supersede all others. The doctor also gives his attention to all other branches of dentis- 
try, from the extraction of teeth to the making of plates under the old system, and in all 
of these branches he has introduced various improvements. 

Dentistry at the present day has become a science, and the barbarities which were 
practiced on patients a few years ago have passed out of existence. Fully alive to the 
requirements of the times, Dr. Dowd is a constant student of his vocation, adopt- 
ing every improvement which shall in any way benefit or promote his business or the com- 
fort of his many patrons. It is surprising to learn the distance from which some of his 
patients come in order to receive the benefits of his experience and scientific manner of 
treatment, for not only do Ohio and the city of Cleveland contribute their share of patron- 
age, but also Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and other adjacent States send their cus- 
tomers, which establishes the fact that scientific dentistry is recognized and appreciated. 
The doctor's offices, located in the Savings and Trust building, No. 44 Euclid avenue, 
consist of three large rooms, where every convenience and improvement are to be found. 
The reception room is handsomely furnished and decorated, showing both taste and refine- 
ment, while the operating rooms contain every convenience and improvement known to 
the science. Electric motors are the motive power which propels the delicate machinery 
in use, and are in themselves a novelty but seldom met with. The doctor's business since 
his residence here has been rapidly increasing, as patients recognize scientific work with 



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moderate charges and assist in enlarging his business. The Indiana Dental College, of 
which the doctor is a graduate, stands high among schools of its kind, and not only was 
the experience which he gained there the means of his present success, but by thirteen 
years of constant application and study he has succeeded in originating new methods which 
others do not employ. 



SIPE & SIGLER, 



Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry, No. 402 Superior 

St., Masonic Temple. 

The above named firm has caused considerable 
stir in business circles, more especially among 
the jewelry trade, and deserve more than pass- 
ing notice. The members are Mr. J. F. Sipe, 
who came here from Indiana in 1882, and Mr. 
C. C. Sigler, a native of Warren, Ohio, who 
has resided and done business here since 1879. 
These gentlemen associated themselves together 
in the wholesale and retail jewelry business in 
1882, occupying rooms in the Wilshire build- 
ing, and were successful from the start, remov- 
ing in 1884 to No. 402 Superior street in 
order to secure larger and more convenient ac- 
commodations for their growing business. Here 
they occupy one of the most elegant ground 
floor store-rooms in the 
city, carrying an im- 
mense stock of fine and 
medium watches, dia- 
monds, jewelry, silver 
and plated ware, and 
all goods pertaining to 
the trade, besides main- 
taining branch houses 
at Pittsburgh and Indi- 
anapolis. They employ 
twenty-five clerks, book- 
keepers, salesmen, etc., 
and their transactions 
for the past year foot up 
$150,000. 

The great distinguishing feature of this firm's business, upon 
which they particularly pride themselves, is the new style of 
bringing buyer and seller together for mutual 
advantage. Sipe & Sigler's contract purchas- 
ing system, whereby consumers are supplied 
with various lines of goods, including gro- 
ceries, meats, clothing, furniture, stoves, hardware, drugs, hats and 
caps, boots and shoes, white goods, feathers, jewelry, watches, dia- 
monds, silverware, horse and carriage hire, photographs, dentistry, 
millinery, fuel, house and sign painting, medical attendance, 
wall paper, interior decorations, etc., at prices 10 to 33 y£ per- 
cent, less than are demanded by dealers and professional 
men unconnected with the plan. The list of houses co- 
operating under this system is before us, and embraces many of the 
soundest and most responsible of Cleveland's merchants and busi- 
ness men. Any person living in the city can avail himself or herself 
of the benefits of this plan of buying on payment of twenty-five 
cents per month membership fee. Country people and others liv- 
ing at a distance can secure the same advantages for a year on pay- 
, , v * ment of $2. so. 

This 14 k. charm, $13.50. . J 




This 14 k. gold case with G. M. Wheeler move- 
ment, $50.20. 





This 14 k. charm, 
$11.00. 



K. of P. 



Write Sipe & Sigler for particulars and catalogue. 



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PETER GERLACH & CO., 

Manufacturers of Warranted Extra Cast Steel Saws, Tight Barrel Machinery, Files, 
Emery Wheels and Gummers — Office and Warerooms, No. 28 Columbus St. ; 
Factories, Columbus and Winter Sts. 

Peter Gerlach & Co. are 
the most extensive builders 
of stave and heading ma- 
chinery in the world, and 
fully nine-tenths of all the 
sawed staves produced are 
made by their patent devices. 
They also build improved 
heading and shingle ma- 
chinery and brewers' keg- 
pitching and branding ma- 
chines, besides manufactur- 
ing a full line of ice-harvest- 
ing and elevating machinery. 
This is now one of the most 
famous saw manufacturing 
houses in the world, succeeding in 1870 the old-established firm of William Marrott & Co., 
, founded in 1854, and at once put new life into the business, which for some years had been 
in a rather languishing condition. At this time the works occupy an extensive three-story 
brick structure at Columbus and Winter streets, are splendidly equipped Math modern im- 
proved machinery run by steam, employ forty trained mechanics, and turn out a vast quan- 
tity of the best grades of circular, long and cylinder saws, late improved stave, heading and 
tight barrel machinery, files, emery wheels, gummers, etc., besides doing a great deal of 
repairing for lumbermen and wood-workers. 

The leading specialty of the house, however, 
to^ which more attention is given than to any 
other, is the "Alligator" chisel-bit saw, patented 
in the United States and in Canada, the most 
novel, original, practical, durable and effective 
device of the kind ever offered the trade. The 
demonstrated advantages of this plan are many 
and important. The teeth, set in slots in line 
. with the cutting strain of the saw, the strain is 
equally distributed upon the whole tooth and 
, leads to the base thereof. Equally supported on 
both sides by the solid saw plate, only the cutting 
point is exposed, thus making the tooth as firm 
and rigid as in a solid saw. The angle at which 
the teeth are set admits of a better clearance than 
■ is possible to obtain in other saws of its class, and 
causes the saw to cut solid chips and shavings, 
cutting with less power than any other inserted, 
and fully one-third less than solid saws under like conditions. 

The hinged double jaw bit holder clamps the bit as in a vise, relieves the saw plate from 
all wear, and protects the saw from damage in case of accident resulting from running into 
head blocks, spikes, etc. 

All other inserted tooth saws have the bit, or cutting tooth, set directly against the saw 
' plate. The result is, the part supporting the bit soon becomes worn and damaged, making 
the saw practically worthless, unless redressed at about half the original cost, while a few 
new bits and jaws make our saws as good as new. 

The expanding spring slot expands and effectually locks the tooth when in position, and 
admits of changing bits in less time than required by any other mode of fastening now in 
use, with no keys, wedges, rivets, studs or screws to strain the saw or become lost. 

The bits are forged from the finest silver tool steel, costing double the price of steel 
. usually used for the purpose. They are milled and ground uniform to size, swaged, and to 
suit the various kinds of timber, therefore hold their cutting edge longer and do not re- 
quire one-fifth the filing of solid saws, to say nothing of the time and tools wasted in swag- 
ing and gumming. 

The tongue upon the back of bit fits a corresponding groove in the holder; this, coupled 





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with lug on face, absolutely prevents the bit from getting loose in its seat, turning side- 
ways, or flying out; and an off-set on seat upon its face makes it impossible to injure the 
holder in filing, and no special files are required. 

The saws have been tested in hard wood on from one to six-inch feed, and in pine from 
seven to twelve inch feed, doing their work easier and with much less power than required 
by solid or other inserted tooth saws. 

In a run of one year the cost of bits has been found not to exceed five cents for every 
thousand feet of lumber cut, while the saving effected in time alone was estimated to ex- 
ceed the original cost over a solid saw. 

For gang edgers and bolters these saws have no equal. 

Messrs. Gerlach & Co. have a large and rapidly growing trade all over the continent, prin- 
■cipally in the West, Northwest, South and Canada, and their house is in a flourishing 
condition. 



STRONG, COBB & CO., 



Wholesale Druggists, Importers and Manufacturers — Specialties, Fluid Extracts and 
Pharmaceutical Preparations — Nos. 112 and 114 Superior and 116 and 118 Long St. 

In the business history of Cleve- 
land there is no more striking in- 
stance of success which follows 
energy, determination and integ- 
rity than is furnished by the cir- 
cumstances attending the founda- 
tion and growth of the firm of 
Strong, Cobb & Co. The building 
in which the business is now car : 
ried on is five stories in height. The 
laboratory in the rear is 33x110, 
with sub-basement, basement and 
five floors, facing on Champlain 
street and connected with the 
main building by a private bridge 
and a tunnel under Long street 
10 feet high, 10 feet wide and 50 
feet long. On the first floor from 
the street a fire-proof vault has 
been constructed in which are stored valuable chemicals and drugs. The central portion 
of this floor is devoted to the display of druggists' sundries, fancy goods, fine toilet arti- 
cles, etc., while in the rear and opening on Long street is the receiving and shipping de- 
partment. The second floor is devoted to the packing and preparation of orders, and the 
storage of a miscellaneous stock of various articles. The third, fourth and fifth floors are 
used for the storing of glassware, brushes, broken packages of various specialties, etc. All 
of the floors in this building are connected by both steam and dummy elevators. 

Passing from the main building to the laboratory by the tunnel, we find a sub-cellar; the 
boiler and engine room are also located here, while the water supply is derived from four tube 
wells and is forced to the 500-bafrel reservoir on the top floor, and from there distributed to all 
parts of the building. In the basement proper are found several drug mills. The second floor 
is fitted with counters, tables, drawers, shelving, etc., inclosed by doors and used as cup- 
boards for depositing the products of the laboratory. The third floor is used exclusively for 
compounding and the preparation of fluid extracts, while partitioned in one section of it is 
a drying room for the drying of scales of iron and other chemicals prepared by the firm. 
The fourth and fifth floors are devoted to storage of stock, liquors, etc., in addition to two 
tanks holding fifty barrels each for the manufacture of pepsin, which is one of their spe- 
cialties — making, on the whole, one of the most complete establishments of its kind in the 
country. 

In the preparation of pharmaceutical specialties the greatest care is exercised, which has 
won for them the standard reputation their preparations enjoy. In the liquor department 
they represent the leading brands of foreign wines and brandies, importing direct, while 
the celebrated grade of California Port wines from the vineyards of Kohler & Krohling, for 
which the firm here has been agents for the past twenty years, are without exception the 
hest this country produces. Mr. S. M. Strong, the senior member of the firm, was born 




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in Amherst, Ohio, in 1833, coming to this city when a young man, and after several years' 
experience in the drug business he formed a copartnership in 1858, under the name of 
Strong & Armstrong, at No. 199 Superior street, where they carried on a wholesale and 
retail business. Mr. Armstrong retired at the end of twelve years, and Mr. A. Cobb as- 
sumed his place as a partner, the firm then becoming Strong, Cobb & Co. In 1874 the 
firm removed to their present quarters. On the death of Mr. Cobb, in 1882, his sons, 
Lester A. and Ralph L., who had been with the firm some years, assumed his place. The 
territory covered in the sale of goods embraces Western New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio.* 
Michigan, West Virginia and Indiana. 

HULL VAPOR STOVE CO., 



Manufacturers of the Celebrated Hull Vapor Cook Stoves- 
Payne Ave., Corner Hoadley St. 



-Office and Manufactory, 

Gas o 1 in e, 
one of the 
light pro- 
ducts of Pe- 
troleum, has 
now become 
an important 
factor in near- 
1 y every 
hous e h o I d, 
and during 
t h e heated 
s u m m e r 
months, when 
the thermom- 
eter standing 
at 90 and 
upward, mak- 
ing life in the 
kitchen a bur- 
den, the thrif- 
ty house-wife 
welcomes 
with pleasure 
the name of 

gasoline, knowing full well that it is the fuel which will cook her meals without heat,, 
when used in connection with vapor stoves. In 1870 the Hull vapor stove was first 
placed on the market by M. L. Hull, the inventor. Simple and plain, without any attempt 
at ornamentation, it was criticised and endorsed alternately by skeptics and believers in 
the system, until to-day the business has increased from the manufacture of a few hundred 
to 50,000 per annum, which is the present capacity of the factory. In 1879, after the suc- 
cess of Mr. Hull had become assured, the present company was organized with a capital 
stock of $35,000, Wm. M. Lottridge becoming president, and E. H. Monteith, secretary 
and treasurer. The works and offices of the company, located on Payne avenue and Hoad- 
ley street, are probably the largest of their kind in existence. The main building, 150 
feet long by 60 feet wide, embracing two floors, with the annexes and smaller buildings, 
makes them the largest of their kind in the country, giving employment to upwards of 
100 men. The machinery is all specially designed and constructed for the company, mak- 
ing a complete and extensive plant. The variety of styles manufactured, number some 
twenty distinct patterns, from the cheapest to the most expensive, while the specialties of 
the company are many and varied. 

The members of this company are all Cleveland gentlemen, well known and respected for 
business integrity, energy and push, and they have gained for themselves the respect of 
the whole country, for there are but few localities in which the Hull vapor stove is not known 
and in use. Not only do the products of this branch of industry find their market in this 
country, but large shipments are made to Central and South America, Europe and the far 
East, where they are universally indorsed and generally adopted. The company have also 
in operation on the premises, an extensive brass foundry, where castings of all varieties of 
the highest grade are turned out. 




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POWELL TOOL COMPANY. 



P. M. Hitchcock, President ; F. W. Hubby, Secretary and Treasurer- 
of Peerless Axes and Tools— No. 31 Elm St. 



-Manufacturers 




not only in the United States 
Australia and New Zealand. 



Nothing is truer than that " a poor tool is dear at any 
price," for poor tools do poor work, waste time, and worry 
those who use them, the net result being loss and dissatis- 
faction all 'round. Nor is there any necessity for the 
habitual use of poor implemeuts when such establishments 
as that of the Powell Tool Company of Cleveland is turn- 
ing out vast quantities of the finest goods in their line 
ever made, embracing solid " Black Diamond " steel lum- 
bermen's and wood- 
choppers' axes, 
broad-axes, house 
and ship carpenters' 
adzes, lath hatchets, 
etc. These goods are 
all of the very best 
approved modern, 
patterns, and all (save the "Mon- 
arch " adze) bear the celebrated and 
favorite "Peerless" brand. As a 
proof of their acceptability and gen- 
eral superiority of shape, material 
and workmanship, they are rapidly 
superseding the tools hitherto in use 
and Canada, but in South America, 



The Powell Tool Company's works are domiciled on Elm street, 
the office being No. 31. The factory occupies one three-story and 
two one-story buildings, affording 40,000 square feet of space, and is 
equipped with a full complement of late improved machinery, com- 
prising trip-hammers, presses, and all requisite appliances. The 
capital stock of the company, incorporated 1866, is $100,000. One 
hundred men are employed, and edge tools to the value of $150,000 
per annum are placed on the market and sold, the demand being 
fully up to the supply. This is one of Cleveland's most creditable 
industries, and a successful and profitable one, as it deserves to be. 




J. HERIG & SON, 



Dealers in Plain and Artistic Furniture— Warerooms Nos. 165 to 171 Woodland Ave, 

Mr. J. Herig established this house nearly, fifty years ago, in 1840, and it has gradually 
grown in importance and volume of transactions, until it now represents an investment of 
$1,000,000, with average annual sales to the value of $60,000 to $75,000. Mr. W. P. Herig, 
a son of the founder, was admitted in 1868, the style of J. Herig & Son being thereupon 
adopted. The premises occupied are quite extensive, comprising a substantial and attract- 
ive brick building 90 x 75 feet, three stories in height, packed on every floor with exten- 
sive lines of furniture of all grades, from the finest art goods in rare woods and costly 
carving to the plainest and cheapest. A specialty is made of the furnishing of hotels and 
private residences throughout, to which end a vast and varied assortment of parlor and 
chamber suits of latest styles are carried in stock, together with a beautiful and very com- 
plete line of side-boards, chiffoniers, gondolas, couches, lounges, extension tables, secre- 
taries, book-cases, desks, chairs, etc. 

The trade of the house is principally local, the body of sales being made for cash, though 
the installment plan is successfully conducted. 



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JOHNS & CO., 



Lithographers- — Office, No. 20. Blackstone Building ; Works, Perkins Power Block. 

In this city the firms representing this branch of industry have long been celebrated, 
while, most prominent among them, the house of Johns & Co. has not only extended its 
reputation and business throughout Ohio, but its name has become universally recognized 
all over the United States. In the production of cigar box labels and trimmings, chromo 
cards and fine color printing, their reputation is both established and the character of the 
work produced equal if not superior to that of any lithographing establishment in the 
country. Special attention is given to fine stationery work in all branches, in which the 
firm excel, and for variety, originality of design, smoothness and perfection,- they are 
■without superiors. A special feature recently introduced in this department is the reduc- 
tion of large cuts by a new process, and their fac simile reproduction on a smaller scale 
without the necessity of engraving new stones. This represents a large saving to the 
•customers, as it allows of different sizes from the one engraving. 

The firm's business now covers a vast amount of territory, their work being in demand 
in all sections of the country, and not only have they built up a successful trade, but with 
it they have established a reputation for fine lithographic work, which is gradually ex- 
pending even in the face of active competition. In their extensive works in the Perkins 
Power block on Frankfort street, the most complete and expensive machinery, combining 
■every modern improvement known, is to be found, while their force of skilled artists, 
pressmen and assistants, in all departments, numbering upwards of sixty, are kept con- 
stantly employed with the large orders always on hand. 

In order to better facilitate the handling of Eastern business they have established a 
New York office at Rivington street and the Bowery, which is under the management of 
-one of the firm. The business, originally established by the present members of the firm, 
has from a small beginning gradually increased in extent, and to-day the amount of capi- 
tal represented aggregates upwards of $100,000. Since its first organization no changes 
have taken place. The firm consisting of D. W. Johns, D. J. Johns and E. W. Johns 
.are gentlemen who, during their long business experience, have won confidence and 
friends on every hand, and the success which has justly followed their efforts is not tran- 
sitory but bound to continue, as the foundation, built by honesty, integrity and fair deal- 
ing, is solid and sure to stand. 



LEEK. DOERING & CO., 

Notion Warehouse — Nos. 112 and 114 St. Clair St. 

For more than thirty years — since 1856 — the above- 
named firm has occupied a representative position in the 
Cleveland wholesale and jobbing notion and fancy goods 
trade — a position it continues to maintain with all its 
ancient vigor. The founders and original style were Stil- 
son, Leek & Price, all of whom are dead, Mr. T. W. Leek 
being the last to pass away, March 23, 1887. The present 
firm is composed of Messrs. J. C. and W. H. Doering, 
although the heirs of Mr. Leek still retain his interest in 
the business. The firm of Leek, Doering & Co. dates 
from 1872. 

The premises are very extensive, five stories and 
basement, 40x110 feet, and among the most desirable in 
the city. Twenty persons are employed, and the business 
transacted is very large, reaching every town and village 
in Northern and Central Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and 
adjacent sections of Indiana and Michigan. The special- 
ties include, besides every variety of notions, complete 
lines of gentlemen's furnishing and outfitting goods, over- 
alls, and numberless items pertaining to the trade. Buyers 
will find here everything desirable in this department of 
business, in all grades, from the cheapest to the costliest, 
and are invited to inspect goods and figures. Promptitude, 
politeness and square dealing rule. 




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THE GERMAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY. 



H. Schulte, Agent — Publishers of Books and Periodicals — Nos. 957 and 959 Payne Ave. 

Among the largest pub- 
lication societies in Cleve- 
land the German Baptist 
probably excels both in 
variety and extent of its 
work. 

Established in 1866 with 
a small capital, which has 
been constantly augment- 
ed until at the present 
time it is $40,000, their 
publications are now cir- 
culated all over the world, 
and it has been necessary 
to enlarge their premises, 
by the addition of a brick 
building 22 x 48 with an, 
L, making the whole 
building 66 feet wide by 
70 feet deep. Devoted 
entirely to the publication 
of religious works and pe- 
riodicals, they are both ex- 
tensive and well known among the German Baptists everywhere. The building owned 
by the society and from which the different publications are issued is large, affording every 
facility. The company use the entire building, employing eighteen competent printers, 
and pressmen, in addition to office clerks, salesmen and others. 

Among the publications are one weekly and four monthlies, in addition to publications, 
specially adapted to Sunday-school work, such as tracts, periodicals and books. Mr.. 
Schulte, manager and agent, is a well-known Clevelander, and has been connected in this- 
capacity for fourteen years. Since the retirement of Philip Bickel as editor in 1878, that 
position has been occupied by J. C. Haselhuhn. The society is now in a nourishing con- 
dition, and bids fair to continue its publications, which are in great demand and favor 
among the Baptist denomination all over the world. In connection with the publishing 
establishment is an efficient job printing and book binding department, where first-class 
work is performed at the most reasonable rates. 




KUHLMAN BROTHERS. 



Furniture and House Interiors and Street Car Builders — No. 490 St. Clair St. 

In the arrangement of furniture and house interiors special attention must be given tot 
every detail, else the harmony and general effect is broken and the labor useless as a work 
of art. In 1867 Mr. F. Kuhlman first established the present business, and by careful 
attention to the wants of the public not only gained the confidence of our best citizens but 
laid the foundation of a business which has exceeded his expectations. On the admission 
to the firm in 1882 of C. E. and G. C. Kuhlman, sons of the senior member and founder 
of the firm, the capital was increased and the business enlarged in proportion. Twenty 
skilled workmen are now given constant employment at all seasons of the year. The lead- 
ing specialty is hard wood interiors, which have for some time past been the recognized 
finishings for first-class residences, hotels and public buildings, and to which many 
improvements have been added by these gentlemen. Doing an annual business which is 
of very large proportions, their trade is confined chiefly to this city and their services con- 
stantly in demand. By strict attention to business, thorough workmanship and fair 
dealing the founder of the firm has obtained a reputation that .s not excelled in the city, 
and this reputation has been augmented by the present firm vho are unable at times to 
keep up with the press of business which is constantly lowing in upon them. They are- 
now supplying hardwood finishings to car-builders for the construction of street cars, and 
have recently embarked upon the enterprise of building street cars throughout, in which 
they are meeting with gratifying success, having built some cars for the Broadway line 
which met with great approval and an offer of additional contracts. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLE VELAXD . 



M. G. BROWNE & CO. 



Dealers in Lumber, Lath and Shingles — No. 1 Nebraska St. 




One of Cleveland's prominent lumber firms is named above. It was established by- 
Messrs. Browne & Strong in 1 883 — Mr. M. G. Browne having been in the lumber business 
in Cleveland since 1874 — Mr. Strong retiring a year later and Mr. L. O'Connor succeeding 
to the junior partnership. The firm have commodious yards on Nebraska street, a view 
of which is afforded by the cut printed herewith, and at No. I Nebraska street occupy a 
roomy and convenient office, where one or the other of the partners may always be found 
during business hours. Their facilities for the receipt, storage and shipment of lumber 
are first-class, involving the employment of thirty men the year round, and, during the 
busy season, as high as eighty, the sales aggregating as much as $400,000 a year on an 
average. Shipments are made to all principal points in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and, 
handling the best material, which is delivered promptly and at reasonable prices, the 
house is rapidly growing in popularity with builders, contractors and dealers. They were 
burnt out in the great fire of 1884, but are fast recovering from their losses. 



CLEVELAND CO-OPERATIVE STOVE CO. 



M. B. Clark, President, W. W. Baldwin, Secretary and Treasurer — Manufacturers 
of Stoves, Hollow-ware, Plumbers' Sinks, Etc. — Office and Salesrooms, Nos. 26 
to 36*Superior Street, on Viaduct. 

^The Cleveland Co-operative Stove Company was organized in 1867, with a capital of 
$250,000. The warerooms at that time were located at No. 91 Superior street, but the in- 
crease of business and the addition of new styles and patterns necessitated their removal to 
various locations until in 1880 the present large warerooms were opened, which are now 
hardly adequate to the demands of the trade. The location of the foundries and shops of 
the company is at Garden street and the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad tracks. They are 
extensive and complete, covering some four acres. The Buckeye stove works, located 
on the corner of Piatt and Carr streets, are now the property of the company, and are used 
in connection with their other shops. At St. Louis another foundry, the property of the 
company, is in constant operation. The capacity of the three foundries is 30,000 stoves 
annually, besides enormous quantities of hollow-ware, plumbers' sinks, etc. The force of 
workmen employed is 400, besides office assistants and salesmen. 

In addition to their Cleveland warerooms, the company have large branch houses at Chi- 
cago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Minneapolis, while their stoves and hollow-ware are sold 
all over the world. Their line embraces 600 styles and varieties of stoves alone. 



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McINTOSH, HUNTINGTON & CO., 

Jobbers of Hardware, Machinists' Supplies, Tinners' Stock and Cutlery — Nos. 116 
and 118 Superior and 120 and 122 Long Sts. 

Cleveland is unquestionably 
the principal hardware and tool 
market between New York and 
Chicago, that trade being repre- 
sented here' by several mammoth 
houses, one of the largest of 
which is that of Mcintosh, Hunt- 
ington & Co., whose splendid 
five-story buildings, 116 Nos. and 
118 Superior and 120 and 122 
Long streets, 35 x 250 feet, are 
illustrated above. Ninety men, 
including salesmen, porters, 
clerks and bookkeepers, are em- 
ployed, and the transactions of 
the firm aggregate more than a 
million dollars per annum, their 
trade steadily increasing in 
volume and covering territorially 
half a dozen States — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Western New York and Pennsyl- 
vania. 

As before noted, Mcintosh, Huntington & Co. are jobbers and wholesale dealers in 
-every description of hardware, machinists' supplies, tinners' stock, cutlery, etc. They 
also carry complete lines of tools for the use of mechanics in all the trades, for butchers, 
farmers, dairymen and the kitchen, together with all improved agricultural implements, 
Buffalo scales, etc., all of which are supplied to the trade at manufacturers' figures and 
at retail at a very slight advance. A fine assortment of Page oak leather belting and 
kindred goods, supplemented by an inexhaustible supply of iron, steel and copper wire 
and a variety of lathes, will attract the notice of machine-shop proprietors and workers 
in metals. 

This concern was founded in 1867 by Dagler & Bowman, and succeeded in 1880 by 
Mcintosh, Good & Co., and in 1887 by Mcintosh, Huntington & Co. The present firm is 
•composed of Messrs. George T. Mcintosh, W. R. Huntington, F. P. Smith, A. C. Hord 
and H. H. Bishop, all of whom are Clevelanders save Mr. Bishop, who came hither 
from Decatur, 111. 



THEODOR KUNDTZ, 

Manufacturer of Sewing Machine Cabinet Work, No. 31 Center St. 

This splendid factory was erected by the Cleveland Sewing Machine Company in 1875, 
:at a cost of $100,000, and is one. of the largest, most complete and valuable wood-working 
plants in Ohio. The machinery throughout was specially constructed with a view 
to turning out the finest grade of sewing machine wood-work, and is ingenious and per- 
fect to a degree. 

The present owner, Mr. Theodor Kundtz, succeeded the original proprietors in 1880, 
and has made of the concern what they could not, a paying success, employing some 
three hundred men and producing $300,000 worth of superior sewing machine cabinet 
work annually, the pay-roll alone footing up over $10,000 per month. 

Nothing but sewing machine furniture is made here,' and it speaks well for the style and 
character of the work produced that the leading manufacturers of sewing machines in 
Cleveland and vicinity give Mr. Kundtz all of their orders. 

Mr. Kundtz is of German birth, has resided in Cleveland during the past fifteen years, 
and is a thoroughly practical man with a perfect comprehension of his business and its 
requirements. This industry is one that has done and is doing much to advertise to the 
world the growing importance and many advantages of Cleveland as a manufacturing 
■center, and one of which the city may justly feel proud. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



THE CLEVELAND AND COLORADO GATTLE COMPANY. 

Thomas Axworthy, President; H. M. Claflen, Vice-President; C. H. Watkins, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer; John Coon, General Counsel; A. M. Pryor, General Mana- 
ger ; William H. Burnett, Superintendent — Office, Room 23 Benedict Block, No. 
26 Euclid Ave. 

This company was organized under the laws of Colorado in 1884, with a capital of 
$2,000,000, for the breeding and sale in Eastern markets of Colorado cattle. Operations 
were promptly commenced after its organizatien by the purchase of 600,000 acres of graz- 
ing land, which was quickly followed in the summer of 1885 by the purchase of a herd of 
Colorado cattle numbering one thousand head, including thirty-three horses and valua- 
ble ranch improvements. In 1886 the immense herd, the property of Pryor Brothers, 
well-known cattle men, was purchased, making 8,069 head of thoroughly acclimated 
Colorado cattle, together with one hundred horses, extensive and ample buildings, cor- 
rals and other ranch accessories. All of this latter purchase are well graded with Hereford 
and short-horn stock, making one of the finest and most complete herds on the plains. 

The president, Mr. Thomas Axworthy, is a gentleman prominent in business and politi- 
cal circles, and now holds the important position of city treasurer. Vice-President H. M. 
Claflen is another well-known Clevelander, prominently connected with various other 
enterprises. Mr. A. M. Pryor, business manager of the company and formerly of the 
firm of Pryor Brothers, is one of the best known cattle men in the West, and under his 
able management" the business has prospered in every particular. Mr. Burnett, the able 
superintendent, has had many years' experience on cattle ranges, and is thoroughly 
competent to superintend the immense herd. The business of the company is now in a 
flourishing condition, and bids fair to become the largest cattle industry in the West. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEVELAND AS A DRUG MARKET 



Writing up the industries of Cleveland certainly would be incomplete without referring 
to the prominent position of this city as a drug market. Without doubt there is not a city 
in the United States possessing better facilities for filling orders for all articles in the drug 
and chemical line. This enviable position was not attained because of natural geographical 
advantages, but has been fairly won by continued years of aggressive labor and honest 
dealing. To-day Benton, Myers & Co. enjoy the distinction and honor of being the fore- 
most house in Ohio as importers and jobbers of drugs, chemicals and druggists' sundries. 
The policy of this firm has ever been a liberal one. While looking sharply after its own 
success, it has ever been ready to lend a cheerful hand to promote the prosperity of its 
patrons. 

CLEVELAND PRESERVING WORKS. 



J. Nussdorfer, Proprietor — Manufacturer of the Celebrated " Home-made " Mince- 
Meat, Jellies, Jams and Preserves — No. no Erie Street. 

The consumption of preserved fruits, jellies and mince meat of so-called " factory 
make " has grown to such large dimensions as to be recognized as one of the leading indus- 
tries. This enormous growth is attributed to the following facts : First, the standard of 
this line of goods has been advanced to a degree equal to the best production of the most 
fastidious housewife. Second, the entirely groundless prejudice against " factory-made " 
goods is a thing of the past. Third, preserves and jellies being a very welcome and much 
cheaper substitute for butter, especially in winter, when butter is high. 

The Cleveland preserving works of Mr. J. Nussdorfer, No. no Erie street, are the most 
extensive of the kind here, putting up large quantities of delicious preserves, jams and 
jellies annually. These goods are pronounced by competent judges equal if not superior 
to those made elsewhere, and are supplied to the trade at reasonable prices. The manu- 
facture of high-grade mince meat is a specialty in which Mr. Nussdorfer has distinguished 
himself, his renowned " home-made " brand being extremely popular with careful house- 
wives. In addition Mr. Nussdorfer carries on a large bakery, manufactures ice cream 
and pies for the trade on a large scale, and has a large trade in this branch of his bus- 
iness. Mr. Nussdorfer founded his present enterprise in 1863, at the corner of St. Clair 
and Erie streets, removing in 1880 to his present location, where he has good facilities, 
occupying 11,000 square feet of floor space, employing twenty-five people and live deliv- 
ery wagons. 



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THE WILLIAMS PUBLISHING CO. 



W. W. Williams, President and Treasurer"; J. H. Kennedy, Secretary— Book and 
Mercantile Printers and Publishers. 

One of the most complete and nourishing of Cleveland's numerous printing houses is 
that of the Williams Publishing Company, No. 145 St. Clair street. The house was 
founded by Mr. W. W. Williams in 1880, and incorporated, with that gentleman as presi- 
dent and treasurer and Mr. J. H. Kennedy as secretary, June J, 1887. The capital stock, 
owned principally by the parties named, is $75,000, and is invested in a first-class outfit 
comprising Campbell book perfecting and job presses, a fifty horse-power engine and 
boiler, a superb composing room equipment and well-appointed bindery. 

The building at the number designated is a double one, the Williams Publishing Com- 
pany occupying the east half, 25 feet front, 100 feet deep, four stories and basement. In 
the latter are the boiler and engine, on the first floor the business office and folding room, on 
the second floor the large and busy composing rooms, on the third the bindery, and on the 
fourth the airy and well-lighted press-room, where a varied and valuable complement of 
late improved and ingenious machinery makes music " from early morn to dewy eve," 
and often until late in the night. In every department the best and latest improved 
devices are employed, and, with a force of sixty-five employes, a vast amount of superior 
work is executed, the specialties being fine book, pamphlet and catalogue printing. This 
work — The Industries of Cleveland — is a sample of the better class, and, we have 
no hesitation in saying, as neat a bit of printing of the kind as was ever produced in 
Cleveland. 

The company do a vast deal of first-class printing for publishers of subscription books, 
and, having at hand all requisite facilities, give uniform satisfaction to their patrons. 
Among the best of their bound publications, sold by subscription, is the beautifully gotten- 
up " Presidents of the Republic," copiously illustrated with steel engravings. 

This company are printers of the Magazine of Western History, handsomely illustrated 
with steel plates (noticed more at length under the the head of "The Press" in our intro- 
ductory chapters), and of Church Life, a leading Episcopal monthly. A very popular edu- 
cational publication issued from their press is " Michael's System of Rapid Penmanship," 
which is achieving great popularity with pupils, teachers and public school boards. 

Business men and others desiring really good and artistic pamphlet, catalogue and other 
printing, in which accuracy, skill and taste are essentials, will find it worth while to call 
upon the Williams Publishing Company. 



CLEVELAND MALLEABLE IRON CO., 



Manufacturers of Refined Malleable Castings to Order — Near Woodland Ave. Crossing 

of C. & P. R. R. 

Messrs. L. M. Pitkin, S. C. Warner and Robert Hanna were the founders of this splendid 
industrial enterprise, established in 1868. At the present date the capital is a quarter 
million and the officers as follows: President and treasurer, A. A. Pope; vice-president, 
J. H. Whittemore; secretary, O. K. Brooks; sales agent, L. O. Rawson; superintendents* 
E. W. Hotchkiss, C. A. Clump. 

The company's premises comprise seven acres of land near the intersection of Wood- 
land avenue and the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad, conveniently situated with reference 
to shipping facilities, upon which have been erected ten spacious brick buildings, which 
include foundry, finishing shops, storage warehouses, packing department, offices, etc. 
Six hundred people are employed in the various departments, and the product is readily 
disposed of throughout the Middle, Western and Southern States. 

Producing every description of refined malleable iron castings to order in endless 
variety and quantity, in their manufactures the company has few rivals, theirs 
being one of the largest and most perfectly ordered establishments of the kind in the United 
States. As an evidence of their superiority it may be stated that at the National Exposi- 
tion of Railway Appliances, Chicago, 1883, this company was awarded the bronze medal 
for the best piece of malleable iron casting — a distinction fairly earned. 

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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



THE CLEVELAND RUBBER COMPANY, 




Manufacturers of Mechanical Rubber Goods, Clothing, Carriage Drills, Cotton Hose, 
Clothes Wringers, Etc. — Junction of C. & P. and Nickel-Plate Railways. 

This company employs 
from 250 to 300 people, be- 
sides a splendid and costly 
equipment of appropriate 
machinery and appliances; 
turns out vast quantities of 
the finest goods in all de- 
partments, and has a trade 
extending throughout the 
United States and into for- 
eign countries. Its present 
officers are : L. K. McCly- 
monds, president and general 
manager ; M. I. Blanchard, 
secretary, and R. J. Fuller, 
manager sales department. Capital stock, $250,000. All connected with it are Cleveland 
men ; a fixed and prosperous institution of which this city may well be proud. 

Every description of rubber goods, except boots and shoes, for which there is any 
demand, is manufactured here. Rubber belting, for which they have a most excellent 
reputation throughout the whole United States — particularly have they been successful 
in furnishing belting for agricultural machines, saw mills, elevators, etc., that has given 
such service that the same firms have renewed contracts with them continuously from 
time to time for the last twelve years. 

They manufacture all kinds of hose, 
garden or hydrant hose, engine hose, fire 
hose, steam hose, brewers' hose, suction 
hose, cotton hose, rubber-lined; linen hose, 
rubber-lined, etc., etc. Also, sheet pack- 
ing, round and square duck packing, rub- 
ber-back packing, gaskets, rings, valves, 
springs, tubing, cement, wringer rolls, 
anti-shaft rattlers, and all kinds of mould- 
ed and pressed goods to meet the require- 
ments of any patentee or manufacturer. 

They also manufacture what is known 
as the " Leader " clothes- wringer, with 
hard wood frame, embracing all latest 
improvements; also the "Cyclone," an 
iron frame wringer, equally good and sim- 
ilar to the old, widely and favorably 
known "Eureka." They are also prepared 
to furnish wringer manufacturers and re- 
pairers with wringer rolls, and as they 
have a large machine shop connected with 
their works they can supply the iron 
shafts with the rubber rolls vulcanized 
immovably thereon complete. Another 
feature of their manufacture coming rap- 
idly into prominence is rubber floor cov- 
ering, or matting, a most desirable article, 
for which a large demand is anticipated. 

This company has, within the past few 
years, also taken up the manufacture of 
rubber clothing in all its varieties, and is 
now producing daily several hundred of 
ladies' garments in the most desirable and 
fashionable styles of gossamer, electric, 
transparent, cantons, etc. In vulcanized 
•clothing they are making a large variety 
of coats, including special coats for fire- 
men, policemen, teamsters, business men, 




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equestrians and pedestrians, all latest patterns and styles ; also horse covers, wagon covers, 
carriage drills, ice aprons, etc. The feature of this company's clothing is, that while it is 
waterproof and durable, it is not a loose, baggy, unsightly garment, such as has been the 
•case heretofore, but is made to fit as a tailor-made garment of best style. 

From a very modest beginning this company has grown to be one of the largest in the 
United States. They have twelve acres of land at the junction of the C. & P. and Nickel- 
Plate railways, a large part of which is covered by their spacious buildings, all of which 
are three-story brick, built in the most substantial manner. The growth of the company's 
business necessitates constant additions to and improvements of the works. The offices 
are spacious and pleasant. Agents, both resident and traveling, handle the Cleveland 
Rubber Company's goods in all principal cities. 



THOMAS H. GEER, 



General Insurance Agent — Office, Kelley Block, No. 158 Superior St. 

There are few men in Cleveland better or more 
•. favorably known to the business community, or 
?: more highly respected by all classes for his 
straightforwardness, manly character and ster- 
ling integrity, than Thomas H. Geer, the capa- 
ble, energetic and successful general fire and life 
insurance agent, who occupies two well-appointed 
front offices on the second floor of the Kelley 
block, No. 158 Superior street. Mr. Geer, a 
native of Connecticut, has resided in this city for 
many years. In 1866 he established himself in 
the insurance business, and it is safe to say that 
in the twenty-one years that have since elapsed 
he has been instrumental in conferring upon the 
people of the city and of the surrounding coun- 
try millions of wealth in the shape of indemnity 
that but for his persuasive efforts must have been 
lost beyond recovery. 

Mr. Geer has always aimed to combine con- 
servatism with progressive enterprise — that is, 
in all his labors to persuade the public to avail 
themselves of modern methods of insurance, he 
has never lost sight of that sheet-anchor of security the absolute reliabilty, and unquestioned 
•solvency of those corporations of which he was and is the agent. As a consequence he 
now represents seven of the most powerful and responsible companies doing business on 
this continent, viz : The Commercial Union, Sun and Lion of London, the Rhode Island 
Underwriters' Association of Providence ; the Enterprise Fire and Marine of Cincinnati, 
the American Fire of New York, and the Mutual Benefit Life of Newark, New Jersey — 
with combined capital of over $70,000,000. Those, therefore, who place their insurance 
with Mr. Geer, have the double satisfaction of dealing with a most courteous and up- 
right gentleman and of a certainty of payment to the last farthing in case of loss of prop- 
•erty or life under policy conditions. 



OHIO RUBBER AND BELTING COMPANY. 



There is nothing connected Avith modern manufacture that plays a more important 
part than belting. The leading source of supply in this line of goods in the city of Cleve- 
land is the establishment of the Ohio Rubber and Belting Company, located at Nos. 154 
and 156 Superior street. This company are large wholesale and retail dealers in hose, 
"belting, packing and rubber goods and supplies. The list also embraces a full and com- 
plete line of rubber clothing, of a very superior quality and most approved styles, a full 
line of druggists' sundries, gaskets, lace leather, belt hooks, horse covers, wagon aprons, 
etc., besides a full stock of rubber boots and shoes. 

This company has an additional prestige in the trade as selling agents for the Cleveland 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLE VELA NL- 



Rubber Co., and sole agents for Josiah Gates & Sons' leather belting, and for the Gandy 
belt. The business, established about two years since, has grown rapidly, until it has as- 
sumed a place amongst those of first importance in this city. The company occupy a 
large double store and basement, and carry a very heavy stock of goods. They have a large 
and increasing trade throughout the States of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan,, 
and are continually extending their popularity as merchants in every manufacturing and 
mercantile center in the country. Their prices are always as low as the lowest, their 
goods cannot be excelled, and their business methods are enterprising, liberal and reliable.. 
The manager of this company is Mr. J. D. Connolly, a native of Cleveland, a young man. 
of practical experience in this line of trade, and whose success seems well assured. 



IRON ORES. 

Menominee Mining Company, Felch Mountain Iron Company, and Chapin Mining; 
Company — -Office, National Bank Building — H. P. Lillibridge, Agent. 

These companies, of which Mr. Lillibridge is the Cleveland representative, are among 
the largest miners and shippers of Lake Superior ores. 



PEOPLE'S LIVE STOCK INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF 

OHIO. 



Chas. O. Swope, President; R. G. Rankin, Jr., Vice-President; M. E. Rankin, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer; C. H. Middleton, General Manager — Home Office, No. 16 
Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Live stock insurance in one form or another is not by any means a new idea,, and the 
right path has at last been found in the People's Mutual Live Stock Insurance Association 
of Ohio, organized under the insurance laws of the State, whereby square dealing, upright 
methods, promptitude and absolute indemnity are secured, and at rates so low as to seem 
almost ridiculous. The officers, named above, are all men of high personal standing and 
character, capable and experienced in this branch of insurance. The plan of operations 
of this association is as follows: An entrance fee of three per cent, is charged on the esti- 
mated value of the animal proposed for insurance, and fifty cents policy fee. This is for 
three years on all horses and mules ten years of age or under. If older, insurance can be. 
effected for one year only. Assessments, as a rule, are made quarterly, but no one assess- 
ment shall ever exceed one per cent, on the estimated value of the animal insured. The 
association insures only horses, mules and jacks against death by disease or accident, but 
takes no risks on car, omnibus, hiring, mining or canal stock, nor upon animals that have 
heaves, are cribbers, habitual runaways or dummies, or that have ever had blind or mad 
staggers, or are blind, and consequently cannot be used to speculate upon old, broken- 
down or diseased animals, or animals exposed to extraordinary hazards. When insured ani- 
mals are rendered totally unfit for service by accident and killed to prevent suffering, the 
face value of the certificate is paid. Insurance is transferred with the animal when sold or 
exchanged, if desired; if not, the seller may place the amount on another animal. All 
certificates are payable in full without any deduction whatever for any cause. Annual 
expense dues, payable in advance, are three-fourths of one per cent, on the estimated 
value of stock insured. Good stock in good hands only is insured, and at a moderate 
valuation. Since its organization the People's Mutual has issued certificates on over 6,000 
head of live stock, valued at over $1,000,000, has carried its risks during the past year at 
a rate of ly^ per cent, per annum, and has never yet contested a just claim. These facts 
speak volumes for the management, and mark this as the cheapest, safest, most reliable 
and most desirable insurance association of the kind in existence — a conclusion which is» 
thus indorsed by the Ohio Superintendent of Insurance : 

" Columbus, Ohio, February 21, 1887. — The best live stock insurance association that 
we have organized under the laws of the State Is the People's Mutual Live Stock Insur- 
ance Association at Cleveland, Ohio. Respectfully yours, 

" HENRY J. Reinmund, Superintendent." 

Branch offices are maintained in many principal cities, where any desired information 
will be furnished. The principal eastern office is located as No. 500 Locust street, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 



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WM. EDWARDS & CO., 



Wholesale Grocers — Nos. 137, 139 and 141 Water St., and 318, 320, 322 and 324 

Spring St. 

This is Cleveland's leading representative grocery house par excellence, old, influential, 
reputable and responsible. It was founded in 1850 by Treat & Edwards, the style chang- 
ing in 1857 to Edwards, Iddings & Co., in 1864 to Edwards, Townsend & Co., and in 
1887 to Wm. Edwards & Co., the present members of the firm being Wm. Edwards, one 
of the founders, Amos Townsend, J. W. Roof and H. R. Edwards. 

Messrs. Wm. Edwards & Co. occupy the immense six-story brick building Nos. 137, 139 
and 141 Water street, 66 feet front by 180 feet deep, provided with three capacious freight 
elevators and all modern conveniences, substantially and elegantly fitted up on every floor. 
Thirty-eight men — clerks and porters — are employed, and a stock of goods averaging 
.$250,000 in value is carried at all seasons, the house doing a business that extends terri- 
torially throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana, and aggregating millions 
of dollars annually. The leading specialties comprise choice teas, tobaccos and cigars, in 
which they do a vast jobbing trade, acting in the capacity of importers and manufacturers' 
.-agents, and handling the best grades of these goods to be found in this market. Prompt- 
itude and square dealing have always distinguished every transaction of this great house, 
the result being that they constantly gain new and seldom lose old customers. 

Mr. Wm. Edwards came from Massachusetts to Cleveland in 1852. For the first year 
•of his residence here he was employed as clerk by W. J. Gordon, and then became junior 
partner in the firm of Treat & Edwards. Few men have worked harder or more effect- 
ively for Cleveland's material advancement. 

Amos Townsend has resided in Ohio since 1850, and in Cleveland since 1859. Up to 
1863 he was in the employ of Gordon, McMillin & Co. as clerk, and in the year last 
named became a member of the firm of Edwar Is, Townsend & Co. He is an old and 
honored 'citizen, public-spirited and liberal-minded. 

J. W. Roof was reared in Cleveland, and from 1858 to 1872 was in the employ of the 
house of which he is now one of the proprietors. 

Harry R. Edwards is a son of the senior member. He graduated with high honors at 
Harvard in 1883, then became a clerk for Edwards, Townsend & Co., and was promoted 
;to a partnership on the reorganization of the house the present year. 



E. E. HAMMETT, 

Manufacturing Jeweler — Room 3, No. 204 Superior St. 

The production of fine jewelry has become an industry that has 
greatly developed during the past few years. Formerly the busi- 
ness was almost under the exclusive control of a few firms, but 
now it*is generally divided, and every city of any importance has 
its manufacturing jewelers. In this city the above named gentle- 
man has become widely known for his many productions in fine 
jewelry and the setting of diamonds and precious stones. A 
thorough jeweler in every sense of the word, progressive, reliable 
and painstaking, he has succeeded in building up a handsome and 
prosperous trade. In 1877 the business was established at No. 
164 Superior, removing to No. 185 Superior street in 1879, and 
from tnere to his present location during the past year. Mr. 
Hammett is a native of Providence, Rhode Island, where he 
learned his present business, and has been a resident of 
this city for the past twelve or fourteen years. His present 
business is confined chiefly to Cleveland and vicinity, and is rap- 
idly increasing in volume. Mr. Hammett is thoroughly reliable, 
energetic and thorough in all work he undertakes, and patrons 
may rest confident that whatever work is entrusted to his care will 
receive his personal supervision and prompt attention. 




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THE FISHER & WILSON CO., 

Wholesale Dealers in Pine and Hardwood Lumber — No. 47 Central Way — N. D. 
Fisher, President and General Manager; E. L. Fisher, Vice-President and Treas- 
urer; A. M. Allyn, Secretary. 

Cleveland is quite advantageously situated with reference to the lumber trade, her numer- 
ous railroads giving her an outlet to all portions of Eastern and Southern Ohio, Western 
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, etc., while the lakes stretch away from her feet to the 
inexhaustible forests of the Northwest and the British possessions. Among the conspicu- 
ous concerns that have built up her trade in this great specialty and are still engaged in 
extending it to new markets, one of the most prominent is the Fisher & Wilso'n Company, 
whose great yard, capable of piling 12,000,000 feet, and storage sheds 140 x 240 feet, are 
located on Central Way, with office at No.. 47. This company, composed of Messrs. N. 
D. Fisher, E. L. Fisher, A. M. Allyn, George Fisher and C. H. Foote, was incorporated 
in 1875 with a capital of $150,000, and has been remarkably successful in all of its ven- 
tures. The officers we have already named. A force of some one hundred and twenty- 
five men are regularly employed, and the annual sales loot up an average of 30,000,000 
feet, most of which is shipped to Ohio towns, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New England. 

, The Fisher & Wilson Company handle every description of rough lumber — hardwood, 
white and southern yellow pine, poplar, etc., and are at all times prepared to fill orders 
to any extent, promptly and in the best manner. Their specialty is pine lumber at whole- 
sale, but during the past five years they have added hardwood in response to a growing 
demand from buyers. 

This company is the successor of Fisher, Wilson & Co., founded in 1866, and has a 
first-class reputation in the trade. The plant is shown on opposite page. 



THE CLEVELAND DRY DOCK COMPANY. 

J. F. Pankhurst, President ; Robt. Wallace, Vice-President ; Frank Wright, Sec- 
retary ; J. B. Cowle, Treasurer — Ship-Building and Repairing — Office and Yard, 
No. 95 Elm St, '* 

This is one of Cleveland's oldest ship-building plants, founded by Stephens & Presley in 
1850, and conducted by them uninterruptedly until 1876, when Mr. Stephens retired, the 
firm of Presley & Co. succeeding. In 1886 the Cleveland Dry Dock Company became the 
purchasers, organizing and incorporating with the above-named officers and a paid-up 
Capital of $150,000, all of the stockholders being CJevelanders. The dock is 300 feet 
long, 41-foot gates, 12 feet depth on blocks, and one of the most valuable properties of 
the kind on the lakes, provided with gang-saw mill, planing mill and a complete equip- 
ment of steam-hoisting and other machinery suitable for ship-yard use, the entire premises 
lighted by electricity and every conceivable appliance at hand to expedite the work of 
building, docking and repairing wooden steam and sail vessels up to the largest tonnage on 
these waters. A force of seventy-five skilled workmen is employed, and every commission 
is executed promptly and in the best manner. The dock is in constant requisition by ves- 
sels from all of the lake ports requiring overhauling, or for the construction of new ones. 
At the present time a 2,100-ton steam freighter for Cleveland parties is* on the stock's, 
and will take her place in the «re, coal and grain trade next season. 



KINGSLEY PAPER CO. 



Manufacturers, Wholesale Dealers in Book, News and Printed Wrapping Paper, 
Manilas, Paper Bags, Twines, etc. — No. 157 Seneca St. 

Messrs. H. F. and Geo. H. Kingsley, natives of New York State, who have resided in 
Cleveland for twenty years past, established the Kingsley Paper Company in 1884, and 
within a little more than three years have built up a prosperous trade extending terri- 
torially over Ohio, Western New York and Pennsylvania and into West Virginia Their 
warehouse space comprises the four-story brick building, 20x80 feet, No. 157 Seneca 
street, and four floors of the adjoining building, thus securing ample room for the storage 
of stock and such mechanical operations, as are required. They carry complete lines of 
fine, medium and coarse papers, etc., and fill orders to any extent for printed wrapping, 
plain maniias, paper bags, twines, printer's stock, etc. 



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M. D. & L. L. LEGGETT, 

Counselors at Law in Patent Cases and Solicitors of Patents — Masonic Temple. 

Since 1836, it is officially stated, over 400,000 patents have been issued by the United 
States government. It is unavoidable, therefore, that some of them should conflict with 
others, and it is also a fact that thousands of them are practically worthless. Up to the 
past year or two it mattered little in what shape an original patent was issued, if it proved 
to be valuable all defects could be cured by reissues; hence, the most of the soliciting 
of patents went to mere solicitors, who were not lawyers, and it would not pay lawyers 
to do the work. Late decisions of the United States Supreme and Circuit Courts have 
completely revolutionized the whole practice of obtaining patents. It is now almost im- 
possible to improve a patent by reissue ; consequently, if an inventor ever expects a good 
patent, he must secure it on his original application. The employment of attorneys well 
acquainted not only with the practice of the Patent Office, but the United States courts 
in patent cases, is absolutely necessary to any certainty that the patents secured will prop- 
erly cover the inventions. Often inventors who are not lawyers, simply because they 
are mechanics, will make their own applications for patents, or get mere solicitors who 
are not thorough lawyers to apply for them, and generally they might just as well throw 
their money and their inventions into the fire. The reliable old firm of M. D. & L. L. 
Leggett, of this city, patent lawyers, have for some time time past devoted much atten- 
tion to soliciting patents, and have achieved wonderful success, partly owing to their in- 
dustry and strict attention to business, and partly to their long experience, thorough 
acquaintance with the patent office, and command of extraordinary facilities. Gen. M. 
D. Leggett, head of the firm, was formerly Commissioner of Patents, and the knowledge 
then acquired is utilized to the advantage of his clients. Since 1874 he has been at the head 
of the present house, at first alone, but admitted his sons, W. W. and L. L., in 1875. 
W. W. Leggett retired in 1879, and the style of M. D. & L. L. Leggett was adopted in 1882. 
This firm is in all respects one of the best equipped in the United States, giving exclusive 
attention to patent business, possesses a complete library relating to patent cases and de- 
cisions from 1790 to the present time, and handles 300 to 400 cases annually in the United 
States courts, besides one application a day in the patent office. Occupying five com- 
modious offices in the Masonic Temple building and employing seven capable assistants, 
they are amply prepared to give prompt and competent attention to any business intrusted 
to their hands. 

Gen. M. D. Leggett is a native of New York State, served in the Union army, in com- 
mand of the Third division, Seventeenth army corps, part of the time commanding the 
corps, and was several times wounded at the front. 



CLAFLEN PAVING COMPANY. 

H. M. Claflen, Presidsnt ; W. B. Page, Secretary — Paving Contractors — Medina 
Block Stone Pavement a Specialty — Office, No. 29 Euclid Ave., Quarries' at Al- 
bion, N. Y. 

That Medina block stone pavement has stood the test of years and is the equal, if not 
the superior of granite, is beyond question. In the early days of Western New York, when 
the country was yet in an unsettled condition, this stone was first put in use, and may yet 
be found, solid and substantial after the test of half a century, on some of the streets of 
her older villages. Generally adopted at the close of the Avar, it became, and is still rec- 
ognized, as the leading paving stone in use. The quarries of this company at Albion, cover- 
some thirty acres, with a daily capacity of twenty-five car-loads, and giving employment 
to upward of three hundred men, are among the most celebrated of their kind in exist- 
ence, and the largest in that field. The plant necessary for carrying on this large busi- 
ness is very extensive, embracing all modern improvements, with steam power, the 
Ingersol rock drill, and immense derricks and other apparatus for removing blocks and 
loading cars. The capital stock of the company, $50,000, is ample for the needs of the busi- 
ness, and allows of the covering of vast territory and the making of heavy contracts. The 
company, outside of their quarries, keep constantly employed, both in this city and in 
various portions of the country where their contracts take them, 125 experienced pave- 
ment layers, and no contract is so large but that they can rapidly fulfill the same. All of 
the gentlemen composing the company are well-known Clevelanders, where they have 
gained the confidence and respect of all. 



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SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS. 



President, Samuel H. Mather; Vice-Presidents, Addison Hills, Chas. A. Otis, M. C. 
Younglove ; Secretary and Treasurer, Myron T. Herrick ; Accountant, Theodore 
T. M. Warner — Chartered April, 1849 — Offices, N. E. Corner Public Square. 

One of the grandest bulwarks of public solvency of which any people can boast is found 
in the savings bank system, which enables even the humblest toiler to deposit at interest the 
small surplus that by the exercise of economy he manages to retain out of the excess of his 
earnings over his expenditures. One of the oldest and most substantial savings institu- 
tions of this country is the Society for Savings of this city, chartered April, 1849, an d now 
in the thirty-ninth year of its usefulness and prosperity. From the official report of the 
society, made October 3, 1887, the subjoined figures are taken, from which it will be seen 
that the institution is in a most flourishing condition : 

Resources — Loans on real estate, $3,957,029.24; loans on United States and State stocks, 
.$3,300.00; loans on other stocks and bonds, $1, 173, 192.00 ; all other loans, $15,000.00; 
United States bond on hand, par, $2,230,000.00; State bonds on hand, $500,000.00; other 
stocks and bonds, $7,114,504.77; real estate, furniture and fixtures, $228,800.00 ; expenses, 
.$13,766.00; due from banks and bankers, $889,879.09 ; specie, $1,951.25; National bank 
and United States currency, $21,622.00. Total, $16,149,044.35. Liabilities — Individual 
deposits, $14,724, 255.17; surplus, $1,000,000.00; undivided profits, $424,789.18. Total 
.$16,149,044.35. 

The report of the State bank examiners to the Auditor of State, July, 1887, is very full, 
.and comprises points as follows: " The rule of the society is not to loan more than one- 
half of the market value of land, exclusive of improvements, and we are satisfied that 
this rule has been uniformly observed. The loans of this kind on June 23, 1887, amounted 
to $3,799,941.19, and all are abundantly secured by first mortgages on real estate 
situated in Cuyahoga county. We examined each and every note and mortgage. 
It has long been the custom of the society never to press a loan made upon 
real estate. Such loans may, therefore, run for an indefinite length of time, pro- 
vided the security does not decrease in value — the mortgagor only being required 
to promptly pay the interest. The loans upon stocks and bonds, being the second and 
.third items of said statement, on June 23, 1887, amounting to $1,052,292, and are secured 
by interest-bearing bonds and dividend-paying stocks. The market value of these securi- 
ties is, in each case, much greater than the amount advanced upon them. An examina- 
tion of this class of securities convinced us that they were not only entirely sufficient to 
cover the amount loaned but having a market value they could readily be converted into 
cash. Interest on all loans, both real estate and collateral, is payable semi-annually on 
.the second Monday of June and December in each year. The prudence and caution of 
the Society in making loans is apparent from the fact that out of 1,668 loans outstanding 
■on June 24, 1887, there was only 34 on which interest had not been paid, and since that 
date 20 delinquents have paid, leaving but 14 on which interest remains unpaid. The 
United States bonds of the Society consist of $100,000 in 41^ per cent, registered bonds 
;and $1,980,000 registered 4 per cents, also $150,000 4 per cent, coupon bonds. The par 
value of these bonds is given in the statement, although their market value is much 
greater. The only State bonds held by the Society are $500,000 Minnesota State railroad- 
adjustment bonds. The other*bonds consist of county, township, municipal and railroad 
bonds, as follows : 



■Ohio county bonds ... .$1,002,117 63 

Ohio municipal, etc., bonds 1,453,706 10 

Indiana county bonds 260,700 00 

Indiana municipal, etc., bonds 94,600 00 

Illinois county bonds 478,273 52 

Illinois municipal, etc., bonds 155,000 00 

Iowa county bonds 417,600 00 

Iowa municipal, etc., bonds 311,050 00 

Kansas county bonds 1,443,500 00 

Kansas municipal, etc., bonds 560,700 00 

Nebraska county bonds 344,000 00 

Nebraska municipal, etc., bonds 62,800 00 

Colorado county bonds 100,000 00 

Colorado, municipal, etc., bonds 9>°97 l S 



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"West Virginia county bonds 31,800 00 

Michigan county and municipal bonds 15,000 00 

Railroad bonds 85,70000 

Total, June 23, 1887 $6,825,640 40 

" The business of the society has steadily increased from its organization up to the pres- 
ent time. The increase during the ten years last past is more especially noticeable by a 
comparison of the business of the year 1877 with that of 1887. 

June 23, 1887, the deposits were $14,115,413 11 

June 22, 1877, the deposits were 8,581,473 57 

Increase $ 5,523,989 54 

June 23, 1887, number of depositors were 34,462 

June 22, 1877, number of depositors were 18,897 

Increase I S>5^S- 

" During the last fiscal year there has been an increase of $1,429,524.42 in the amount of 
deposits, and an increase of 2,901 in the number of depositors. The society does not 
receive deposits from one person to an amount exceeding $5,000. The average amount to. 
each account on June 23, 1887, was $415.95, while on June 24, 1886, it was $401.95, an 
increase of $14.00. The earnings and expenses for the year were as follows : 

Earnings from interest $775,7°3 90 

Earnings from rents • 925 00 

$776,628 90. 

Expenses $47,443 18 

Taxes paid 18,372 86 $ 65,816 04 

Total net earnings $710,812 86 

" The real estate, furniture and fixtures reported by the society include the property now 
occupied by it, valued at $100,000, and also a valuable parcel of land on the north side of 
the Public Square, upon which it proposes to erect a new building, the present building 
being inadequate to accommodate the large and rapidly increasing business, (the total 
daily average of depositors and people transacting business with the society has been, 
estimated from book entries to be about five hundred). For this lot there has been paid 
the sum of $128,800. The amount due from banks and bankers was $851,779.79, de- 
posited in the several National banks of Cleveland. We carefully examined the certifi- 
cates of the cashiers of the several banks and found that the statement of the society was 
correct. The amount of currency and specie on hand at the date of the statement we ver- 
ified by counting the amount on hand at a time during our examination, and comparing 
this with the receipts and disbursements during the intervals as shown by the cash book. 
The amount is also certified to be correct by the members of the examining committee of 
the society, who counted the same on the day the statement was made. The liabilities 
of the society consist of the sum of $14,115,413.11 due to depositors; surplus fund $1,000,- 
000, and $446,923.63 undivided profits. Total amount of deposits for the year, $8,765,- 
231.97; total amount of money drawn out, $7,335,707.55. We found the system of con- 
ducting the business of the society complete and practical, with sufficient checks and 
guards against errors and omissions." 

The list of officers, trustees, finance and examining committees, and corporate members 
of the society, comprise many of the most substantial and best citizens of Cleveland and 
Cuyahoga county, whose very names are a guarantee of the probity and soundness of any 
enterprise with which they may be connected. 



ROOT & McBRIDE BROS,, 

Wholesale Dry Goods — Nos. 86 to 100 Bank St. 

Few, even of the older and better informed residents of the Forest City, are completely 
posted as to the extent of the dry goods trade conducted here or the vast territory covered 
by the principal representative establishments in this branch of business. One of the old- 
est and probably the largest of these is the house of Root & McBride Bros., of which A- 



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M. Perry & Co. were the founders as long ago as 1849. Morgan & Root succeeded in 
1856, the style changing in i860 to Morgan, Root & Co.*^ Several unimportant changes 
occurred in the composition of the firm subsequently, and finally the present style was 
adopted in 1884, the members being Messrs. R. R. Root of the former firm, and L. and J. 
H. McBride, all experienced and capable dry goods men and polite, energetic and pro- 
gressive gentlemen, conservative in their methods, yet liberal in all that tends to advance. 
their own and the city's interests, as is evident from the spirit exhibited in the erection of 
the magnificent business block now occupied by them, six stories and basement, constructed 
of pressed brick and terra cotta, with massive walls, iron girders, supports and roof, thor- 
oughly ventilated and beautifully lighted, 115 feet front by 150 feet deep, with capacious 
warehouse in rear of the same height, 33 feet front on Johnson and running through to Lake- 
street 248 feet — thus giving the concern floor space equal to 63,560 square feet, with every 
modern facility in the way of elevators, etc., for the rapid and satisfactory handling of an 
immense trade, the average annual sales aggregating $5,000,000. 

Root & McBride Brothers possess many advantages over most of their competitors here- 
and elsewhere in the West, maintaining skillful buyers in all the leading American 
markets, controlling the entire product of many leading manufacturers, and importing 
direct on their own account very largely of silks, velvets and rich dress fabrics of the most 
famous European weaves ; they are therefore always in the lead with late styles and 
novelties, and prepared to give their customers the benefit of the advantages they them- 
selves enjoy in the matter of early selections and moderate prices. In short, this is a 
strictly first-class wholesale importing dry goods house in all that the term implies,, and 
the trade will do well to make a note of and profit by the fact. Buyers from all parts of 
the country — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania 
— flock here for their supplies, and it is a good proof of the firm's excellent style of doing 
business that their circle of customers constantly widens with ever-increasing influence. 



EGGERS BROS., 

Manufacturers of Building Brick — Petrie St. "and 'Chard Ave. 

The origin of the brick is lost in the mists of antiquity, and the inventor's name is- 
known no more among men ; but that he conferred an inestimable boon upon all the gen- 
erations that have since played their parts and vanished from the stage of life, none will 
dispute. Amid all the changes that have occurred since the Tower of Babel arose upon 
the plain of Palestine — despite the mutations of religious beliefs, the rise and fall of 
dynasties, devastating wars, the onward march of civilization and the evolution of inven- 
tion and improvement, the brick has maintained its place as the king of all building 
materials, and, for all that can now be foreseen, is likely to continue its reign to the end" 
of the chapter. 

The most prominent manufacturers of bricks in the vicinity of Cleveland are Messrs. 
F. H. and William Eggers, whose immense yards cover twenty-five acres of ground, and 
whose neat office is at the corner of Petrie street and Chard avenue. The brothers reside 
together at No. 141 Seelye avenue, near Woodland avenue, and are good citizens, honored 
and respected by those who know them best. Their manufacturing plant embraces, besides- 
the twenty-five acres of valuable land (containing a twenty-six foot seam of superior clay) 
above referred to, five drying sheds 32 x 200 feet each, two stock brick sheds 32 x 225 feet 
each, two kiln sheds 72 x 200 feet each, "one of Chambers Bros. & Co.'s patent cut-off 
press brick machines, two of Martin's common brick machines, cable car track and equip- 
ment for the bringing of clay to the machines, a sixty horse power engine and one hundred 
horse power boiler — in all valued at $26,000. From sixty to seventy men and twenty-four- 
wagons are employed, 9,000,000 bricks, valued at about $50,000, are made annually and 
sold in this city exclusively. This firm supplied the bricks for the Huck avenue, Scranton 
avenue, Woodland hills and Siegel street school-houses, the new Payne block on Superior 
street, Stoppell's brewery, the Brooklyn Street Railway Company's barn on Woodland 
avenue, the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the M. A. Hanna block on Woodland avenue, near- 
Willson, and many other prominent architectural ornaments of Cleveland. That the 
bricks made at these yards give satisfaction to builders, contractors and property-owners- 
is evident from the demand, which steadily increases year by year. 

Mr. F. H. Eggers has lived here for twenty-two years and his brother William for 
twelve years. They established their yards first in 1881, on East Clark avenue, removing 
to the present location in 1885. 



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OHIO BUSINESS UNIVERSITY. 



562 Pearl St., Cleveland, Ohio. 

The prosperity of a thorough school of practi- 
cal training is surely not a thing calculated to 
excite wonder or surprise. If such institutions 
had found their origin in the fancy of some en- 
thusiast, the success which they now enjoy might 
be looked upon as a sort of miracle, resulting 
from that distinctively American social disease, 
known as a craze ; but being called into exist- 
ence by actual necessity-being the outcome of our 
practical age — the unparalleled growth which has 
attended them can only be regarded as a natural 
and fit accompaniment of recognized merit. 

The history of one business college is usually 
the history of all. They have a common object 
— that of preparing young and middle-aged men 
and ladies for the real duties of business life — and 
in the proportion which they accomplish this 
object is their prosperity generally measured. 

Among the representative schools of this class 
must be mentioned the Ohio Business Univer- 
sity. This institution was originally established 
and known as the Brooklyn Business College, 
owned and conducted by Prof. F. D. Gorsline. 
Its career dates back to October 1, 1884.. While 
started on a modest basis, it steadily in- 
creased in size, influence and general prosperity, 
until, in March, 1886, more commodious 
quarters were required, a partner was admitted, 
and the school removed to its present central 
location on Pearl street, and the title changed 
to " University." With enlarged facilities and 
improved and constantly improving methods and conveniences, the school has enjoyed a 
substantial and solid development. The partnership existed for some time, but not prov- 
ing any advantage to the school, the entire management has again devolved upon Prof. 
Gorsline, who is deserving of all credit for his conscientious and able efforts to build up 
a Business University which shall do honor to the city in which it is located. 

The school is elegantly furnished and supplied with every modern appliance which 
tends to the comfort and welfare of the student. Occupying the second and third 
floors of the commodious Pearl block, 562, 564 and 566 Pearl street, there is ample room to 
accommodate many hundreds of students. The curriculum embraces the following prac- 
tical branches : Book-keeping, penmanship, commercial law, business arithmetic, spell- 
ing, reading, grammar, rapid calculation, correspondence, mechanical drawing, short- 
hand, type-writing, elocution, music, German and art. 

Its faculty is composed of teachers whose capability for the work is undoubted, and who 
stand high in their respective specialties. The list is as follows : F. D. Gorsline (gradu- 
ate of Grand River Institute, practical teacher and book-keeper of 13 years' experience), 
president and proprietor, superintendent of course of instruction, principal of the actual 
business department and professor of penmanship, single and double entry book-keeping, 
science of government and political economy. 

T. Nelson (formerly teacher in Chicago), principal of theory department and teacher of 
arithmetic, penmanship and book-keeping 

S. E. Bartow (graduate of Oberlin College department of penmanship — one of the world's 
finest penmen in all branches of the art), principal of the penmanship department, corres- 
ponding secretary, engrosser and teacher of business correspondence and social letter- 
writing. 

W. D. Showalter (late of Peirce College of Business, Philadelphia, and editor of The 
Pen-Art Herald), assistant teacher of plain and ornamental penmanship. 

Wm. Heil (a graduate of the Ohio Business University of Cleveland, and head book- 
keeper of the West Side Banking Co.), assistant principal of the banking department. 




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Mrs. F; D. Gorsline (late of Oberlin Conservatory of Music), teacher of vocal and instru- 
mental music and short-hand. 

E. W. Laird, Esq., (of the law firm of Marvin, Laird & Norton,) teacher and lecturer on 
commercial law. 

C. W. Richards (a practical mechanical draftsman of twenty-two years experience, and 
superintendent of the drafting department of the Nickel-Plate railroad), principal of the 
department of mechanical and architectural drawing. 

Mrs. P. Laur (formerly teacher of German in the Cleveland High School, and graduate 
of Leipsig Conservatory), instructor in the German language. 

Hattie M. Gorsline, stenographer, teacher of electric short-hand and type-writing, 



M. A. HANNA & CO., 

Successors to Rhodes & Co. — Coal, Iron Ore and Pig Iron — No. ioi St. Clair St. 

Cleveland is one of the most important of American coal and iron markets, and the 
trade is represented by numerous houses operating on a large scale, one of the most con- 
spicuous of which is named at the head of this article, and is composed of Messrs. M. A. 
and L. C. Hanna, A. C. Saunders and C. C. Bolton, all Ohio men and residents of this 
city. The firm in 1885 succeeded the noted old house of Rhodes & Co., and ranks with 
the heaviest producers and shippers of the West, owning iron mines at Marquette and in 
the Gogebic district. They employ 2,500 operatives and put upon the market 
millions of dollars' worth of fuel and iron, both ore and pig, annually, shipping heavily 
not only to the lake ports, but to manufacturing points all over the country. 

The character of the concern may be inferred from the personal and business standing 
of Mr. M. A. Hanna, its head, who is president of the Union National Bank, president 
of the Chapin Bolt and Nut Company, director in the Cleveland and Mutual Transporta- 
tion companies, president of the St. Paul and Pacific Coal and Iron Company of St. Paul, 
Minn., president and a leading stockholder of the West Side Railway Company, a director 
of the Globe Iron Works Company, owner of the Cleveland Opera-house, and more or less 
prominently connected with various other public and private business enterprises. Mr.. 
L. C. Hanna is his brother. 



THE MEXICAN MINING AND DEVELOPING COMPANY. 

Principal Office, Nottingham Block, No. 89 Euclid Ave., Room 11 — Colonel J. S. 
Morgan, President and General Manager; J. Koehler. Treasurer; F. B. S. Mor- 
gan, Secretary. 

The location of the mining property controlled by this company, and known as the 
Beuna Vista mines, is in Sonora, Mexico, long celebrated as one of the greatest gold- 
producing districts in the world. The company was organized for working and develop- 
ing this valuable property in October, 1886, under the laws of Arizona, with a capital 
stock of $1,250,000 — two hundred and fifty thousand shares at five dollars per share, par 
value — and since its organization has rapidly developed and placed the mine on a solid- 
paying basis. The ore averages $23.70 a ton, while the entire mine throughout will 
average $18.00 per ton clear. The mountains wherein this mine is located present every indi- 
cation of containing large deposits which have not yet been reached, and the outlook for 
all interested is one of prosperity. Colonel J. S. Morgan, the president and founder of 
the company, is a New York gentleman, having served with distinction during the rebel- 
lion in the Nineteenth New York volunteers. At the close of the war he took up his. 
residence on the Pacific coast and in Mexico, where he became identified with mines and 
mining interests, and his vast experience has been instrumental in the development of the 
Beuna Vista mines. Mr. Koehler, the treasurer of the company, is an old Cleveland resi- 
dent, and is also interested in the Cleveland Provision Company. F. B. S. Morgan, a son 
of the president of the company, and now its secretary, was for many years connected 
with the New York Ledger, and until his acceptance of the present position was captain of 
Company C, Thirteenth regiment of Brooklyn, where he was generally respected. In view 
of the careful management and development of the company's interests and the large- 
deposits in view, which only require thorough working, we can but prophesy a flattering; 
success for the company and all interested. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



STERLING & CO. 

Carpets, Floor Oil Cloths, Curtains 'and Upholstery Goods — No. 10 Euclid Ave. 




Nothing could give a better or more satisfactory indication of the advancement of Cleve- 
land, social and material, than the growth of the trade in the above-named goods since 
Mr. F. A. Sterling first engaged in it as clerk with Wick & Beckwith, on Superior street, 
thirty-seven years ago, at which time twenty pieces of carpet was considered a good stock 
•for this market. From so small a beginning has been built up the carpet trade of Ohio, 
aggregating many millions of dollars annually. Mr. Beckwith died in 1876, when the fa- 
mous old house was succeeded by Sterling & Co., Mr. Sterling having for twenty years 
been the junior partner of Mr. ;Beckwith. The present firm is composed of Messrs. 
F. A. Sterling, George P. Welch, W. R. Havens and George W. Keim, and the concern 
is one of the largest and most reputable in the country, employing about 100 persons 
-and doing a business of nearly a million dollars a year. The splendid carpet ware- 
room at No. 10 Euclid avenue is the largest of the kind in America, 90 feet wide by 400 
feet in length. Two large three-story buildings adjoining and fronting on Hickox street 
are devoted to storage purposes and to the wholesale department, whence constant heavy 
shipments are made to dealers in all portions of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Western 
Pennsylvania. The retail department is local headquarters for these godds, and no lady 
in Cleveland thinks of buying until she has inspected the styles here exhibited — an amiable 
weakness shared by her town and country sisters in all the region round about. 

The stock embraces every description of imported and American carpets, floor cloths, 
curtains and upholstery goods, from the rarest products of Persian and Turkish looms to 
the cheapest domestic weaves, the mere enumeration of which would occupy more space 
than we have to spare. Both wholesale and retail buyers will find here just the goods 
:and figures they want. 



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EUCLID AVENUE OPERA HOUSE. 



Gus Hartz, Manager — No. 78 Euclid Ave. 




the present manager, Mr. Gus. Hartz, leased and took 
grown in popularity and patronage 
until it is now regarded, and justly, 
as one of the best paying and 
most desirable properties in Cleve- 
land. This opera house, since com- 
ing under the management of 
Mr. Hartz, is the best shocked 
in the country, the properties, 
■scenery, etc., being very fine, and 
the curtain seldom rises without 
generous bursts of applause in ad- 
miration of the magnificent stage 
settings disclosed to view. Massive, 
fire-proof and an architectural orna- 
ment to the city, Clevelanders have 
reason to speak of it with pride. 
The best attractions of the high, 
est class on the roa.d play 
regular ^engagements here every 



The Euclid Avenue 
Opera House is Cleve- 
land's leading and most 
fashionable place of 
amusement, and, on the 
whole, is one of the 
most beautiful, attrac- 
tive and convenient in 
the United States, 
tastefully and elegantly 
designed, and finished 
and artistically deco- 
rated without and 
within. 

This fine edifice was 
erected in 1873 D Y a 
stock company, under 
the management and 
personal supervision of 
the noted empressario, 
Mr. J. A. Ellsler. Mr. 
M. A. Hanna became 
the owner by purchase 
in 1875, an d the house 
was conducted under 
the business manage- 
ment of Mr. L. G. 
Hanna until 1884, when 
charge of it, since which time it has 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



THE EBERHARD MANUFACTURING CO., 



Manufacturers of Carriage, Wagon and Saddlery Hardware — Refined Malleable Cast- 
ings to Order— C. & P. R. R., near Woodland Ave. 

The works of the above-named company, covering with their appurtenances thirteen 
acres of valuable land, provided with railway switches and all conveniences, comprise the 
largest plant of the kind in the United States, probably in the world. The buildings, 
including foundry, machine and finishing shops, packing department, storage warehouses, 
boiler and engine-houses, offices, etc., are twenty-seven in number, all of brick, solid, sub- 
stantial, handsome, and arranged in the most convenient manner for carrying on the various 
operations incident to the business. In all six hundred persons are employed, and the: 
output, which is very large, is sold in every North and South American, European and 
Australian market. 

The specialties of the company embrace all conceivable devices in malleable iron, car- 
riage, wagon and saddlery hardware, to which novelties are constantly being added, all of 
which are popular with the trnde. They also make to order any desired style of mallea- 
ble castings in quantities to suit, guaranteeing superior material and workmanship. 

Mr. A. A. Pope is president and Mr. P. Champney secretary. The capital is $400,000.. 
The company was incorporated in October, 1879, and proved a success from its inception. 

THE ALBION STONE COMPANY. 



H. M. Claflen, President and Treasurer ; W. B. Page, Secretary ; L. D. Leonard, 
General Manager. — Paving Stone, Curbing, Flagging, Platforms, Sills, Caps, etc. 
• — Office, No. 29 Euclid Ave. ; Quarries at Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. 

Medina stone has long been celebrated for building and paving purposes. Hard, with- 
out the brittleness characteristic of other varieties, it is much sought after, and the cele- 
brated Medina and Albion quarries have for the past half century shipped their products all 
over the United States, even Canada receiving her share of this favored variety, as no stone 
has yet been found that will take its place for the purposes for which it is used. The or- 
ganization of this company in 1886, with a capital of $50,000, has been the direct means 
of largely increasing the business in Medina stone throughout Ohio and the West. With 
a capacity of twenty-five car loads a day, and giving employment to 300 quarrymen and 
helpers, it ranks as the largest of its kind in that locality. H. M. Claflen, president and 
treasurer of the company, is an old resident of this city, where he is prominently con- 
nected with many leading organizations. W. B. Page, secretary, is also a Clevelander, 
and a thorough business man in every particular. The superintendence and management 
of the quarries are under the able direction of L. D. Leonard, who has added many im- 
provements in the production of the rough stone. 

During the past season business has been exceedingly prosperous, with indications of a 
continuance in this direction, as the company's reputation and the quality of stone handled 
well merit the support which has been given them. 



JOSEPH STAFFORD & SON, 

Manufacturers of Choice Family and Chemical Soap — Dealers in Tallow — Nos. 400 

and 402 Canal St. 

It is forty-one years since Messrs. Wilson Lee and Joseph Stafford established themselves, 
in Cleveland as dealers in tallow and manufacturers of soap. Nine years later Mr. Staf- 
ford became by purchase sole proprietor, Mr. Lee retiring, and subsequently Mr. Joseph 
R. Stafford was admitted, the style changing to Joseph Stafford & Son, as at present. The 
elder Mr. Stafford came to Cleveland from England in 1842, and has ever since been 
engaged in the same business. The son was born and reared here, and trained to his 
present vocation from boyhood. The original investment of capital in these works did not 
exceed $25,000, and the output was about three thousand pounds of soap per week. Now 
the plant requires for its accommodation a roomy two-story brick building 100 x 200 feet 
square, filled with improved machinery and appliances, employs ten men, and puts upon 
the market from 100,000 to 200,000 pounds of superior goods every seven days, dependent 
upon the season and the demand. 

The leading specialty of the house is the famous " Champion" soap, popular wherever- 
introduced, and handled largely by the trade in Ohio,. Michigan, Kentucky, West Vir- 
ginia and Pennsylvania. 



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THE W. S. TYLER WIRE WORKS CO. 



W. S. Tyler, President ; E. H. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer— Successors to W~- 
S. Tyler — Manufacturers of Wire Cloth and Wire Goods, Fourdrinier and Cylin- 
der Wires, etc.— Office and Works, Nos. 754, 756 and 758 St. Clair and 89, 91 
and 93 Wason Sts.— St. Clair St. and C. & P. R. R. 

The great wire works here- 
with illustrated present one 
of the best examples extant 
of what industry, energy and 
upright business methods, 
faithfully persisted in, may 
accomplish. Mr.W. S. Tyler,, 
now president of the W. S. 
Tyler Wire Works Co., be- 
gan the manufacture of wire 
goods on a small scale ira 
1872. He toiled early and! 
late, gradually increasing his 
facilities, until two or three 
years ago he found himself 
at the head of the largest and 
most prosperous establish- 
ment of the kind in Ohio, 
doing an immense business 
and with trade connections 
throughout the States, Canada, Mexico, etc. The labor of managing the factory and its 
commercial relations made it a measure of expediency to« form a company, which was 
organized and incorporated in 1885, with a cash capital of $175,000. The premises 
occupied by the works comprise nearly two acres, eligibly situated with reference to rail- 
road transportation. The buildings, of brick, are eight in number, the two principal 
structures three stories in height, all provided with steam power and a vast accumulation 
of improved machinery adapted to this class of manufactures. One hundred and seventy- 
five skilled operatives are employed, and the output is correspondingly large and compre- 
hensive, embracing complete lines of painted wire cloth, locomotive wire cloth, smut 
and mill screens, paper mill wires, steel and brass riddles, coal, ore and mining screens, 
etc., office railings, and, in short, every description of wire goods, iron, brass and steel, 
together with architectural brass, iron and wire work, crestings, elevator protection rail- 
ings, etc. Material, design and workmanship are first-class and equal to any produced 
in this country. 



THE WEST SIDE FURNITURE COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of All Kinds of Furniture, Scrolled and Turned Wooden Ware and 
Wooden Mantels, Desks for Offices, Banks, etc. — Specialty, Clark's Surgical and 
Gynecological Table — Nos v 40 and 42 Orchard St. 

The West Side Furniture Company is one of the most promising of Cleveland's industrial 
ventures, established in 1872 by the present proprietors, Messrs. Fred. Press, A. Claus and 
Ernest Joergens. In 1876 Mr. Dress withdrew from the firm, leaving the membership as 
at present. The factory occupies the two-story frame building, 44x60 feet, Nos. 40 and. 
42 Orchard street, which, however, is already inadequate to the demands of the trade, and'/ 
is to be enlarged in preparation for next season's business. The works now employ a force 
of fifteen men and a fine and complete equipment of machinery, lathes, etc., operated by 
steam. The productive capacity will be greatly increased when the plant is enlarged. 
The output for the past year was valued at $20,000, and embraced every description of. fine 
and medium furniture, scrolled and turned wooden ware. A leading specialty is made of 
Clark's celebrated surgical and gynecological table, the most perfect and convenient thing 
of the kind ever devised, and which is already in use by the most prominent surgeons, 
throughout the country. It is five feet ten inches long in surgical, and four feet in specu- 
lum position, two feet wide, 30 inches high, constructed of black walnut and antique oak, 
covered with best leather, with malleable nickel-plated' irons, ornamental and elegant in 
design and appearance. 

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THE INDUSTRIES OE CLEVELAND. 




Conspicuous among the large industrial establishments of Cleveland, devoted to the 
manufacture of specialties, is the Palmers & De Mooy iron foundry, occupying the premises 
bounded by Leonard, Winter and German streets, the great foundry building alone being 
240x250 feet in area and three stories in height, and the plant representing a cash invest- 
ment of $50,000. The works were first started in 1882, at Merwin and Leonard streets, 
removing to their present location four years later. The equipment of machinery and ap- 
pliances is all that could be desired, and the firm give employment to 175 men in all de- 
partments, the annual output averaging $300,000 in value, orders being filled for manu- 
facturers of light machinery, etc., all over this and adjoining States. Eighteen to twenty 
tons of pig iron are used daily. 

The specialties to which most attention is given comprise a great variety of castings for 
the .use of sewing machine and electrical apparatus manufacturers — light, strong and 
graceful work that involves great skill and care in its production. Among the firm's regu- 
lar and most extensive customers are the Brush and other electric light companies and most 
of the leading makers of sewing machines at home and abroad. 

The firm is composed of Messrs. V. T. Palmer, Geo. H. Palmer and Wm. De Mooy. 
Mr. Geo. H. Palmer is a native of Wisconsin, came to Cleveland in May, i860, and is a 
practical mechanic. He has charge of the office work. Mr. De Mooy was born in Hol- 
land and emigrated to Cleveland in childhood. He is shop superintendent. Mr. V. T. 
Palmer is an Ohioan by birth, came to Cleveland when a small boy, and has been with this 
firm since its inception. 



FOREST CITY PACKING CO. 



Works, Junction of C. & P. and N. Y., C. & St. L. Railroads— Office, South Water St. 

This company are the sole 
owners and manufacturers of 
the Patent Combination and 
Heston Cone packing. This 
company was established but 
a few years ago, yet its growth 
has been wonderful, the merits 
of its goods being known the 
country over. These packings 
are constructed upon the right 
principle, and their durability 
and other advantages over 
other packings are seen and 
admitted by all practical en- 
gineers. The trade of the 
company extends all over the 
country, and it is supplying 
the largest establishments in 
the Union with its goods. 
These packings were awarded 
the grand medal of the American Institute for superior excellence, and are made in variety 
suitable for locomotives, steamboats, pumps, steam hammers, ice machines and all kinds 
of stationary engines. 




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107 



H. E. LEVEAUX, 

Railroad and Mining Supplies — Room 15 Mercantile Bank Building. 

Mr. Leveaux, who is of English birth, has resided in the United States for twelve years 
past, engaged for the greater portion of that time in vocations connected with railroading, 
thus gaining a practical knowledge of the wants and requirements of that interest — a 
knowledge that in his present calling has proved of immense advantage to him. Establish- 
ing himself here in 1886 as a dealer in and manufacturers' agent for railroad and mining 
supplies, machinery, tools and appurtenances, he has been very successful, building up a 
trade of between $50,000 and $75,000 the first year on a capital of $25,000. His best 
field is in the Western railway centers, though his trade extends all over the country, 
most of his purchases being made at Ptttsburgh and Youngstown and shipped to order of 
buyers. His facilities are first-class. 



UNION CARRIAGE AND TOY CO. 

Joe Iglauer, B. Forchheimer — Importers of Willow-ware and Toys — Manufacturers' 
Agents of Children's Toy Vehicles, etc. — No. 78 St. Clair St. 

As the world grows older it grows wiser, at least in those things which most nearly con- 
cern domestic happiness, and as a consequence the children come in for a greater share of 
consideration now than at any previous period in the history of the human race, as is evi- 
denced by the multiplication of means for their amusement and instruction. To such an 
extent is this feeling cultivated that the once despised and obscure business of making 
toys for the rising generation has grown into a great industry with many branches, involv- 
ing the employment of thousands of skilled operatives and millions of capital, and the 
demand for standard goods and novelties continues to augment from season to season. 

The most conspicuous house in Cleveland dealing in this class of goods is the Union 
Carriage and Toy Company, of which Messrs. Joe Iglauer and B. Forchheimer are pro- 
prietors, occupying the commodious three-story building No. 78 St. Clair street, 30 x no 
feet, and carrying a vast and varied stock. The firm are importers of all the finer grades 
of willow-ware and toys, and manufacturers' agents for the sale of all the novelties in 
children's carriages, express wagons, doll carriages, rocking horses, shoo-flys, velocipedes, 
carts, wheelbarrows, sleighs, base balls, bats, croquet sets, hammocks, and a thousand 
other items which we have not space to enumerate, but which the trade and the "men 
and women of smaller growth" will readily appreciate. All of the neatest, most attractive 
kinds are supplied to dealers at rock bottom figures. 

Both members of the firm are of German birth, Mr. Iglauer coming to Cleveland in 1868 
and Mr. Forchheimer in 1880. Both are pleasant, obliging, yet prompt and energetic 
business men. The house was established in 1882, and already enjoys a large and pros- 
perous trade throughout Ohio and adjoining States. 



THOMAS QUAYLE'S SONS, 

Ship Builders — Office and Works, Central Way. 

Thomas Quayle's Sons have been building lake vessels at their present location since 
3847, and have also built for themselves a staunch and seaworthy reputation second to 
that of no similar house in this country. Craft of every description from their yards fly 
the stars and stripes in every port and on every navigable sheet of water between Duluth 
and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the first complaint as to materials, workmanship and 
model is yet to be filed. The yards of the firm occupy six acres of ground and are pro- 
vided with every desirable convenience, including two thoroughly equipped mills for the 
sawing and preparation of timber. From 200 to 250 skilled workmen and laborers are 
employed, and a vast amount of building and repairing is done annually. A specialty is 
made of the construction of large vessels, steam and sail, for the grain and ore trades, five 
of which were completed during the past season, and they are now building three more 
for Buffalo parties, averaging 2,000 tons carrying capacity. Particular attention is given 
to the building of wooden steamers. The firm is composed of three brothers, Thomas E., 
George L. and William H. Quayle, native Clevelanders, who have devoted their entire 
lives to this pursuit. Their skill as shipbuilders and standing as business men has never 
been challenged. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



ECLIPSE ELECTROTYPE AND ENGRAVING COMPANY. 



Andrews & Aust, Proprietors — Lithograph Building, Corner St. Clair and Wood Sts. 

Although established 
so late as the fall of 1882, 
this house is recognized 
as a representative in- 
stitution, taking rank 
with its oldest compet- 
itors in the industry in 
which it is engaged. 
The business was orig- 
inally commenced by C. 
W. Dean, who con- 
ducted its affairs until 
the early part of 1866,. 
when he was succeeded 
by Messrs. Edgar L. 
Andrews and Henry L_ 
Aust, who operate ' the 
concern under the name 
of the Eclipse Electro- 
type and Engraving 
Company. Their foun- 
dry, in the Lithograph 
building, is among the 
largest and finest in the 
country, and is magnifi- 
' tcupstt-Ecoxui.o cently lighted by twenty- 

two large windows. The works are supplied with all the best machinery and appliances 
that can be advantageously employed. Their equipment is such that they are enabled to 
produce the very finest work, the rapidly increasing demand clearly indicating the hold 
they have secured upon the popular favor. Electrotyping and engraving is done in all its 
branches, the most perfect processes being used, the most accomplished operatives engaged, 
and great pains taken to obtain the best effects and results of which the art is capable. 
Messrs. Andrews & Aust supervise the completion of every order, and maintain the highest 
standard of production in each line. The services of the firm may be secured with every 
confidence that their work is equal to that of any rival establishment and their prices uni- 
formly lower. Their liberal and honorable methods have already commended them to the 
support of an extended list of patrons, embracing publishers, printers, manufacturers and 
others. They guarantee satisfaction in every instance, and make a specialty of fine job- 
and cut work. All orders and inquiries by mail or telephone (No. 1916) receive prompt 
and careful attention, and correspondence is earnestly solicited. 



J. R. TIMMINS & CO., 

Proprietors of Cleveland Oil Works — Refiners of Fine Lubricating and Illuminating; 
Oils — Office, Nos. 7 and 9 Superior St. 

The above firm, composed of Messrs. J. R. and A. R. Timmins, was- established twenty- 
one years ago, on the South Side, removing in 1877 to the Hardy block, Euclid avenue;, 
thence in 1880 to the Atwater building, and finally, in 1881, to its present location, Nos. 
7 and 9 Superior street, where it controls ample office and warehouse facilities- and is. 
doing a flourishing business, principally with the lake ports and the maritime interest. 

The firm make specialties of the higher grades of lubricating and illuminating oils, of 
which immense quantities are put upon the market and meet with great favor at the hands- 
of the trade and of consumers, who thus evince their appreciation of an industry which, 
without being in any sense a monopoly, supplies its customers with the best possible 
goods at reasonable prices. The works are located at North Clarendon, Pa., in the heart 
of the oil region, and are among the most extensive and best equipped in existence. 

The Timmins brothers are Canadians, who settled here in 1S63. 




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109 



CLEVELAND WHEEL AND FOUNDRY WORKS. 

Maher & Brayton, Proprietors — Manufacturers of Car, Engine, Truck and Tender 
Wheels, Railroad Machinery and Rolling Mill Castings, Street Railway Wheels 
and Turnouts, and Their Own Patent Chilled Face Railroad Frogs — Office No. 
20 Carter St. 

The Cleveland wheel and foundry works, es- 
tablished by Bowler & Maher in i860, are 
among the most extensive and famous indus- 
trial concerns of the kind in the United States, 
the premises covering, including buildings and 
yards, three acres of ground. The present 
firm, composed of Thomas Maher and C. A. 
Brayton, succeeded Bowler, Maher & Brayton 
in 1880, Mr. Brayton having been admitted in 
1870. The working plant is a very complete 
one, comprising within itself every conceivable 
facility for the quick and accurate production 
of castings of all kinds, and gives regular em- 
ployment to 250 men. The specialties embrace 
a full line of car, engine, truck and tender 
wheels, of the best possible material and workmanship, constructed with the latest im- 
provements, and popular with locomotive and car-builders and railroad companies, as is 
shown by their extensive use on nearly every American road. The firm also make to 
order every description of heavy machinery and rolling-mill castings, for which there is a 
steady and increasing demand on the part of mill men and others East, West and South. 

No foundry could well be more complete than this, and few have greater capacity. The 
average day's work is 70 tons of castings, which includes 150 wheels. Particular atten- 
tion is given to making large and heavy castings, and the greatest care exercised to render 
satisfaction. 



BOUQUET SOAP COMPANY. 

J. J. Vautier, Manager — Manufacturers of Fine Laundry Soap — No. 48 Merwin St. 

Occupying the ground floor at the above location, the Bouquet Soap Company is steadily 
building up a large business on merit alone. The trade as yet is principally with dealers 
in the city and surrounding towns, but is gradually extending and must eventually reach 
every point in Ohio and adjacent States, and possibly in the Union. Mr. J. J. Vautier, 
the manager, an experienced soap maker, established these works on a very modest 
scale in 1885, and has reason to feel proud of the success so far achieved, principally 
through his personal efforts. 

The specialties of the Bouquet Soap Company comprise an unequaled line of fine laun- 
dry soaps, of which the leading brands — " Bouquet " and " Dry" — are wonderfully popular 
with laundrymen and private consumers. "Bouquet" is a cold soap — that is, it is not 
boiled, but mixed and pressed cold — is absolutely free from adulterations, pure white in 
color, pleasant and attractive* The dry soap is a fine white soap powder, packed in paper 
boxes, neat, convenient, and a favorite soap. 



D. W. LOUD, 

Jobber and Wholesale Liquor Dealer — Cased Liquors and Wines of all Descriptions — 

No. 169 Ontario St. 

Mr. Loud has been located here in the wholesale liquor trade since 1858, and is one of 
the oldest as well as most prominent, reputable and extensive wholesale dealers and job- 
bers in the city or State. Mr. L. owns the building No. 169 Ontario street, two stories, 
22 x 100 feet, and utilizes the ground floor and cellar for salesroom and storage purposes, 
carrying a large, varied and valuable stock of imported wines, liquors, cordials, etc, and 
making a specialty of cased goods of every description appropriate to his trade, which is 
general in the city and surrounding towns in Ohio. Some of his wines are very fine and 
worthy of the special attention of connoisseurs. 

Mr. L. is a native of Massachusetts, and has resided in Cleveland for nearly thirty years. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



FOREST CITY SPRING WORKS. 



Geo. Cooper & Co., Proprietors— Manufacturers of Carriage, Wagon and Seat Springs. 
—Works,. Corner Main and Center Sts.— Office, No. 88 Superior St. 

TRADE The Forest City Spring Works were established 

about 1869 by Mr. George Cooper, the carriage 
and saddlery hardware dealer at No. 88 Superior 
street. These works have contributed largely to- 
Cleveland's fame abroad, and rank with the im- 
portant industries of the citv, employing sixty 
men and covering an area of 200 x 250 feet, fitted up in the best manner and' equipped 
with all necessary machinery, and turning out vast quantities of vehicle springs of al T 
kinds annually, which are 
supplied to the trade all over 
the continent, and meet with 
great favor everywhere. 

These works are the only 
licensed Ohio manufacturers 
of the patent ribbed spring for trucks, omnibuses and heavy express wagons — the best 
and most durable ever devised. They also make to order for the trade a variety of other 

first-class springs, among 
them the Brewster patent 
side-bar, the celebrated 
Timken (illustrated here- 
with), the Howe patent 
side-bar, Groot's patent 
cross, the Crusader, En- 
glish crucible steel 
springs, the patent head 
seat spring, elliptic, 
Concord, platform and 
half-scroll springs, buck 
wagon springs, sulky 
springs, seat springs, 
side-bar wagon springs, 
phaeton and coach C 
springs and many others, together with loose and solid scroll shackles, platform, Concord, 
loop and barrel shackles, etc. 

Manufacturers of vehicles and dealers in carriage and wagon hardware will find it prof- 
itable to communicate with the Forest 
City Spring Works, who manufacture 
the Timker, Brewster, Howe, Groot 
and patent ribbed springs under 
licenses of patentees and owners for 
the trade. Illustrated catalogue sent 
on application. Address Geo. Cooper 
& Co., No. 88 Superior street. 



THE SUMMIT BANK COAL CO., 

Miners and Shippers to the Trade of Massillon and Summit County Coal — Office, No. 
121 Superior St. — D. W. Cross, President; Isaac Newton, Secretary, Treasurer 
and Manager. 

This prosperous company, which supplies fuel to the trade only, was established in 1885, 
and owns valuable mines near Cottage Grove lake, Summit county, employing from seventy- 
five to eighty men and handling 250 to 300 tons per day of as good soft coal as conies to 
this market, and which is in growing demand for heating and steam generating purposes, 
being in great favor in Cleveland, Akron, and all points along the Valley railroad. 

The company is in good shape financially, having a cash capital of $10,000, upon which 
liberal dividends are realized. The officers are Mr. D. W. Cross, president — a Connecti- 
cut man — and Mr. Isaac Newton, secretary, treasurer and manager. 







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Ill 



WILLLIAM SCHAKE, 



Book Binder and Blank- Book Manufacturer — Ruling, Gilt-Edging and Embossing — 
Lithograph Building, Corner Wood and St. Clair Sts. 

In these days of much book-making 
the calling of the binder has devel- 
oped into a branch of the fine arts 
|l and is no longer a mere mechanical 
trade, as any one may see by the mag- 
nificently bound volumes that grace 
the shelves of every book-store and 
library in the land. There are, of 
course, gradations in this as in all 
arts combining the useful with the 
ornamental, some binders possessed 
of originality and taste having 
reached a higher plane of perfection 
than their less gifted brothers, and 
it is to one of this fortunately skillful 
class that we would in this place di- 
rect attention, viz : Mr. William 
H| Schake, who some months ago re- 
moved his large and very complete 
establishment from No. 145 St. Clair 
street (where he had been located 
since 1882) to the Lithograph build- 
ing, corner of Wood and St. Clair 
streets, where he occupies two fine floors, 40x60 feet each, employs fourteen hands and 
a complete equipment of improved modern ruling, embossing, trimming and other ma- 
chinery, and is prepared with every desirable appliance and facility to execute in superior 
style and at short notice all orders for plain and ornamental book-binding, blank-book 
manufacturing, ruling, gilt-edging, embossing, etc. We have inspected samples of the 
work done here, and can intelligently commend the same, both for the artistic taste dis- 
played and the excellence of workmanship and finish. 

Mr. Schake is a native of Cleveland, acquired his trade here, and has had the advan- 
tage of lai-ge experience as a journeyman in some of the most famous of the local binder- 
ies. He is an industrious, enterprising and unassuming gentleman who deserves the suc- 
cess he has already achieved and a still greater measure of recognition and prosperity in 
the future. 




J. T. AINSWORTH & CO., 

Dealers in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silver- Ware — No. 117 Public 

Square. 

This is the largest exclusively retail house of the kind in Northern Ohio, and though 
established less than eighteen months has already built up a trade of over $100,000 a year 
— the result, no doubt, of doiiig business on the most approved modern plan of liberal 
terms, good goods and low prices. *A feature of the concern is the selling of first-class 
goods at regular prices on the installment 'plan, the purchaser taking the goods and the 
house making weekly collections. This plan, as conducted by Messrs. Ainsworth & Co., 
has proved successful and popular, giving satisfaction io both buyer and seller, and does 
not interfere with regular cash sales, which are very large, customers coming from town 
and country throughout this and adjoining counties. 

The firm occupy two large store-rooms, fitted up with safes, show-cases, shelving, coun- 
ters, and all conveniences, and exhibit inexhaustible lines of fine goods in all departments 
— diamonds, watches, clocks, rich jewelry, silverware, etc. — a specialty being made of 
diamonds mounted in heavy gold settings, of which they carry a vast assortment. A force 
of forty-one men is employed, three of whom are bookkeepers, five collectors and thirty- 
three salesmen, and the sales are increasing at a rate that will soon force the house to seek 
more commodious quarters. 

Mr. Ainsworth, the head of the concern, is a native of Vermont, and has resided in 
Cleveland since 1840. He is a prominent citizen and a popular business man. 



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H. T. Tanner & Co., Proprietors — No. 9 Public Square. 

The increased facilities for success that a business education offers to our young men and 
women should be the means of stimulating and urging them to grasp its benefits 
while the opportunity remains. Actual business life is only found in our stores, ware- 
houses, manufactories and mercantile establishments, but the nearest fac simile to it is to 
be found at thoroughly live and active business colleges, where the thoroughness of their 
system is second only to the original itself. In every locality there is a class of people who 
by circumstances are compelled to labor from early childhood, and whom our public in- 
stitutions of learning but slightly benefit, and as night schools under the public charge 
have not been established, it falls to the lot of our business colleges to take in hand, im- 
prove and better their condition^ and fit them for mercantile life. In this particular not 
only have schools of this character been successful, but they have also instructed and better 
fitted for actual business the sons and daughters of our 'leading citizens. Occupying 
important and responsible positions may be found hundreds of graduates from these 
schools, not only in Cleveland, but throughout the whole country, and the well-merited 
success which has been enjoyed by them speaks volumes for the thorough, painstaking sys- 
tem of instruction adopted. 

£ One of the leading institutions of this kind in Cleveland, and one enjoying a large 
patronage, is the Forest City Business College, No. 9 Public Square, established by the 
present proprietors in 1875. Every branch of business is here taught — penmanship, book- 
keeping, type-writing, phonography (or short-hand), commercial law and letter-writing — 
and the instructors in the several departments are all well known teachers of high reputa- 
tion. Night school is held Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, and is largely at- 
tended by both male and female pupils. Mr. H. T. Tanner, the founder, is a New Yorker 
by birth, and was for several years principal of the Oberlin, Ohio, business college — a 
school of wide reputation — and during the period he has been in charge of this college has 
not only increased his former reputation as an instructor, but has built up one of the best 
known colleges of its kind in the State. The school rooms connected with the institution 
are large, convenient, and embrace every department necessary for the purposes intended, 
and the thoroughness and practicality of the course of instruction adopted cannot be better 
attested than by the large number of graduates and the prominent and important positions 
which many of them hold. 



LLOYD & KEYS, 



Manufacturers of XX, XXX, Pale, Kennett and Cream Ales, Porter and Brown Stout 
— St. Clair St. Hill, Between River and Water Sts. 

This is Cleveland's pioneer brewery, and the most extensive manufactory of fine ales, 
porter and brown stout in Northern Ohio, if not in the State. The establishment was 
founded in 1859, and passed into the hands of the present proprietors, Messrs. William 
Lloyd and Dan. H. Keys, in i860. The brewery building is a spacious one, four stories in 
height, 100 x 200 feet, and of great capacity, producing about 6,000 barrels per annum. 
The plant is very complete in all departments, provided with a fine equipment of machin- 
ery and appurtenances, and gives steady employment to some fifteen men. The firm is a 
prosperous one, doing a large business throughout Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and other 
States. It is hardly necessary to speak in praise of the goods made here, since everybody 
within the region tributary to Cleveland is well acquainted with the high reputation of 
Lloyd & Keys' sound XX, XXX, pale, Kennett and cream ales, porter and brown stout, 
which have no superiors as light, healthful and exhilarating beverages. A specialty is 
made of fine old stock ale and porter. 

Mr. Lloyd is a native of Cleveland. Mr. Keys was born in Western New York, came 
here in 1848, clerked for twelve years in the old Ives brewery, and then joined Mr. Lloyd 
in the Cleveland City Brewery. 



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STRONG, CARLISLE & TURNEY, 

IDealeTS ; in Supplies and Tools for Manufacturers, Railroads and Mines — Nos. 82 and 

84 Water St. 

The above-named firm, composed of E. E. Strong, R, H. Carlisle and W. J. Turney, 
rwas organized and began business at Nos. 82 and 84 Water street early in the present 
year. It is seldom indeed that a new house so soon and completely demonstrates its use- 
fulness and capacity, and its members are to be congratulated upon the hit they have made 
in mercantile life. Occupying a capacious four-story building 43 x 120 feet, employing 
nine or ten men — salesmen, clerks, etc. — they are shipping heavily to other points as well 
as doing: a large and rapidly increasing business with the largest and best consumers of 
supplies. in. their line, of which they carry a very complete stock, including all grades of 
leather and rubber belting and hose, all kinds of packing and lace leather, malleable and 
v-cast fittings, all sizes gas, steam and water pipe, machine and elevator bolts, screws, steel 
and brass, -set and cap screws, nuts and washers, coach screws, machine screws, Morse 
twist drills and reamers, Brown & Sharp's goods, Stubb's steel wire, files and plyers, 
machinists' and blacksmiths' vises, hammers, hatchets and saws, auger bits, sledges and 
ship mauls, full line of Forest City files, pipe cutters, stocks and dies, globe valves and 
.gate .valves, brass, copper, iron and steel wire, sheet brass, brass tubing and rods, asbestos 
in all-shapes, drill presses and lathe dogs, differential and tackle blocks, Dixon's crucibles 
.and pencils, chain, wire and manilla rope, governors and jack screws, oilers, lubricators 
.and injectors, etc. 

The gentlemen composing this firm are well-known and popular Cleveland businessmen. 
Mr. Strong came hither from Connecticut in 1865, and, with Mr. Turney, was for a. long 
.time connected with the firm of Wm. Bingham & Co. Messrs. Carlisle and Turney are 
matives of Cuyahoga county, and Mr. Carlisle was formerly senior member of Carlisle & 
Tyler. 



THE SILVER METAL MANUFACTURING CO. 

J. G. Hower, President; Caleb E. Gowen, Vice-President; J. R. Chadwick, Secretary; 
E. N. Morgan, Treasurer and General Manager — Manufacturers of Spoons, Forks 
.and Knives, Silver Metal in Sheets and Pigs for Casting — Office and Factory, 
Hamilton and Kirtland Sts. 

The above-named company was organized and its works established in 1884, and the 
-enterprise has proved a wonderful success, the new metal and the goods made of it meet- 
ing a long-felt want and giving entire satisfaction wherever introduced, which means in 
every city, town and hamlet in the United States. The silver metal spoons, forks, etc., 
.combine merits possessed by no other flatware aside from solid silver goods, and are rec- 
ommended to those desiring a first-class article for their own use. For hotels and res- 
taurants they are unexcelled. They are not plated, but made of one metal, and are solid 
.throughout. The great objection to cheap plated goods has at last been solved with the 
.appearance of this line of flatware, which combines with low price durability, strength, 
fine finish and whiteness, second to solid silver only. Silver metal, like all other metals, 
will tarnish and stain if used in acids or placed in contact with sulphur, as in yolk of eggs, 
•etc. But the use of Putz pomade will at once restore it to its original white color. 
Silver metal ware requires the same care as solid silver goods, viz.: to be washed after 
.each meal in hot water, and to be cleaned once each week or two with Putz pomade, or 
•other polishing substance, applied with a chamois skin or soft cloth ; when thus treated 
.they wear down to a shade or two of solid silver, and will last a lifetime. 

The works as they now stand are entirely new and include a perfect jewel of a little 
Tolling mill with foundry and shops fitted up with steam power and a complete line of 
requisite machinery, drop forges, dies, and other appliances. The manufacturing capacity 
ds equal to forty gross of forks, spoons and knives in stylish patterns, besides large quanti- 
ties of silver metal in sheets and in pigs for castings. It is used in the manufacture of 
some kinds of watch cases, for harness mountings, and for various other purposes, and is 
an acceptable and excellent substitute for genuine silver, which it closely resembles. 

President Hower is a prominent dry goods merchant; Vice-President Gowen, manager 
■of the Kelley's Island Lime and Transport Company. Mr. E. N. Morgan is treasurer and 
general manager. 



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FOREST CITY BRASS WORKS. 

J. V. Kennedy, Proprietor — Manufacturer of Brass Goods — Specialties : The Ken- 
nedy Injector, the Cleveland Ball Cock, and the Buckeye Flue Cleaner Nos 40 

to 44 Leonard St. 

The above-named specialties have a 
very high reputation throughout the 
United States and have made the 
Forest City Brass Works one of the 
most famous industrial institutions in 
this part of the country. Established 
by Mr. J. V. Kennedy in 1880 on a 
modest scale, the concern has been 
successful from the start, the plant at 
this time representing an investment of 
$20,000, occupying a two-story brick 
building 40 x 60 feet, employing thirty- 
five men, and turning out goods to the 
value of $50,000 last year, with flatter- 
ing prospects for a large increase in 
1887. As an indication of the capacity 
of the foundry it may be stated here that the heaviest piece of solid brass casting ever done 
in Cleveland, weighing 1,200 pounds, and now in successful use on board the city fire- 
boat, was made here. The foundry and machine shop are complete in all departments 
and appliances, and every description of brass work is produced to order in the best style 
and at short notice. 

The leading specialties are the Kennedy injector, the Cleveland ball cock, and the Buck- 
eye flue cleaner. Among the principal advantages claimed for the injector are: It is 
warranted to lift water twenty-five feet ; no adjustment is required for varying steam pres- 
sure ; it is independent of the engine ; dispenses with heaters ; heats the water when engiue 
is stationary ; no friction ; saving of power and fuel ; is not in the way ; lifts as well as a pump - r 
has no open overflow; can not freeze ; can be managed by an unskilled boy ; will lift with 
a hot suction pipe; all valves are positive closing; is thoroughly tested before shipping and 
guaranteed to do all that is claimed for it. The reasons why the Kennedy injector is the best 
boiler feeder in the market are stated as follows: It will work under a wider range of 
steam pressure than any other ; it is easier cleaned and repaired than any other ; it is- 
simpler in construction and operation than any other; it has only one handle, and a simple 
movement starts or stops its operation instantly ; it is sold at the lowest price consistent 
with the best of quality and construction ; it is warranted in every case to be as repre- 
sented in printed matter describing it ; it is so constructed that all working parts can be 
removed when -repairs are necessary, but owing to its simplicity and superior construction,, 
repairs are needed less frequently than with any other injector. The Cleveland ball cock 
and Buckeye flue cleaner are also unusually convenient and effective, devices. 



HENRY KOEBEL, 



Merchant Tailor — No. 216 Bank St. 

"Rich be thy raiment as thy purse can buy " is a most excellent maxim, since every 
self-respecting man owes it to his associates, the community and himself to dress well andi 
thus reflect credit upon his own good taste as well as upon the circle in which he moves- 
It is preposterous, however, to expect anything but disappointment in any attempt to dress 
well unless the services of a skillful artist tailor are secured, for the wearer of cheap gar- 
ments, whether hand-me-downs or Schneider-made, is certain to "give himself away " on 
all occasions. A good fit is the prime requisite, fine goods and superior workmanship 
being the immediate accessories and accompaniments that render the picture effective,, 
please the eye of the beholder, and gladden the heart of the wearer. 

Among Cleveland's numerous artistic tailors one of the most prominent is Mr. Henry 
Koebel, whose elegant establishment at No. 216 Bank street, Weddell House building, is 
the favorite resort of many of the local leaders of fashion, Mr. Koebel's specialties being 
perfect fit, elegant trimmings and finish, and thoroughly good work in every instance. 
He employs twenty-five of the best journeymen that good wages and kind treatment cart 




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secure, is himself one of the best and most experienced cutters in the country, executes all 
orders promptly and carefully, and is prepared to guarantee satisfaction to his customers. 

Mr. Koebel imports much of his material, including fine lines of French and English 
suitings, overcoatings and trimmings, carries a large, varied and valuable stock of the best 
foreign weaves, and offers unusual inducements to gentlemen in search of elegant raiment- 
He is of German birth, resided in England for six years, and came to Cleveland in 1870. 



ELWELL & DOTY, 

Contractors for and Manufacturers of Mineral Jet, Bronze and Porcelain Door Knob& 
— No. 41 Viaduct and Corner Elm and Washington Sts. 

None save those connected or familiar with the 
hardware or building trades have any conception 
of the proportions to which the knob manufactur- 
ing industry has grown of late years. The factory 
of Elwell & Doty, for instance, No. 41 Viaduct, 
Cleveland, puts upon the market annually from 
$60,000 to $80,000 worth of these convenient and 
indispensable adjuncts to the doors of the Ameri- 
can public. 

The firm was organized in 1886, and is already recognized as one of the most successful 
business combinations of the Forest City, occupying with its works and warerooms one en- 
tire floor of the great six-story brick building Nos. 41, 43 and 45 Viaduct, in addition to 
commodious quarters at the corner of Elm and Washington streets. They have an 
excellent equipment of special machinery and appliances, and employ forty operatives,, 
their wage-roll averaging $450 per week, and their product's reach all parts of the Union. 
The goods are handled chiefly in Chicago. While every description of knobs for furniture,, 
etc., receive attention, the leading specialties of the house consist of an almost endless line 
of novel and original designs in mineral jet, bronze and porcelain door-knobs, in which 
they excel. 

Both partners are Connecticut men. Mr. Elwell, who has supervision of the works, was- 
for many years engaged in business in New York, a portion of the time in the house of 
Craighead & Elwell, Barclay street. He has resided in Cleveland during the past four or 
five years. Mr. Doty has been in the knob manufacturing business since boyhood. 




E. C. POPE, 



Successor of Masters & Co.— Pig Iron, Iron Ore and Metals— Rooms 11 and 12 Wade 

Building. 

A vast quantity of iron ore and pig iron are handled here,, 
much of it for consumption in local mills, but by far the 
larger portion for shipment to furnaces in Eastern Ohio and 
Pennsylvania, no inconsiderable part of the best iron 
made at Pittsburgh and elsewhere being obtained from 
the splendid Lake Superior ores. One of the most con- 
spicuous handlers of these favorite ores, and pig iron made 
^, therefrom, in this market, is Mr. E. C. Pope, who on the 
|£ first of January last succeeded to the well-known firm of 
|| Masters & Co., with whom he has been connected since 
1880; was also a member of the late firm of Tuttle, Masters- 
& His offices in the Wade building — rooms 11 and 12 — • 
^£g» are elegantly appointed and fitted up with a view to con- 
venience in the transaction of a large and growing busi- 
ness. In addition to his heavy trade in ores and iron, Mr. 
Pope deals extensively in ingot copper, tin, lead, spelter 
and other metals, supplying the trade in quantities to 
suit at lowest market quotation. 

Mr. Pope is a conspicuous citizen and business man of Cleveland, having resided here 
since 1857. He is a native of Maine. 




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E. R. EDSON, 



Wholesale Fresh, Salt and Frozen Fish — Also Proprietor of The Richmond Fishing 
Co., Painesville, O. — Headquarters, Corner of Center and West River Sts., Cleve- 
land, O. 

The great lakes are not only worthy of being classed among nature's wonders and the might- 
•iest of all inland commercial highways; they are avast storehouse of easily-procured food, 
tthe finest fresh water fish in the world flourishing in their crystal depths and to be had in 
^inexhaustible quantities for the taking. One of the most prosperous and extensive fisher- 
iies on the lakes is that of the Richmond Fishing Company at Painesville, of which Mr. E. 
R. Edson is proprietor and manager, with office and warehouse at the corner of Center and 
Detroit streets, Cleveland. The plant at Painesville comprises two two-story warehouses, 
-one 30x80 the other 20 x 50 feet, with ice-house 30 x 60 feet, and a steam-tug at Fairport, 
where the fishing grounds are located. Twenty men are employed there and seven at 
ithe Cleveland warehouse. At Painesville a monster refrigerator of 120 tons capacity is 
devoted to the freezing of fish. A private telephone line connects the office here with 
that at Painesville, and orders are shipped in the best possible shape and with dispatch, 
the sales aggregating $120,000 a year in value, and going to all interior Ohio points, Penn- 
sylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. 

Hart, Pincus & Co. established this enterprise in 1876, and were succeeded by the Rich- 
mond Fishing Company the present year. The catching capacity is 800 tons per annum, 
'ibut 3,000 tons can be conveniently handled if procurable. 



LATIMER & MOORE, 

Contractors and Builders — Office and Mill, Rear of No. 1617 Willson Ave. 

Messrs. Latimer & Moore are among the Forest City's best known and most extensively 
■patronized builders and contractors, the firm having been organized in 1872. Their office 
:and mill occupy a spacious frame building, two stories in height, 60 x 140 feet, in rear of 
No. 1617 Willson avenue, fitted up with a complete equipment of modern improved wood- 
-working machinery, steam power, and all conveniences for the prompt and satisfactory 
■ execution of all work awarded them. The firm employ from forty to sixty men, according 
to the season, and during the past season completed a number of very fine jobs, among 
•them the interior fittings of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church and the Anshe 
Chased Synagogue, both of which are beautiful and attractive examples of fine joiner 
work. In all, their contracts for the year foot up about $60,000, and it is safe to say that 
no~similar house in Cleveland as rendered better or more uniform satisfaction. 

Both members of the firm are natives of the north of Ireland, and both are. skillful 
imechanics and good business men, straightforward and upright in all their dealings. 



WM. H. RADCLIFFE, 

Ship-Builder— Old River Bed, Foot of Taylor St. 

The ship-yards now controlled by Mr. Radcliffe were established in 1867 by Capt. Drake, 
■and are famous for the construction of lake craft, some of the largest and finest wooden 
•steamers and sailing vessels on our great inland seas having been built therein. Possessed 
of some 900 feet of river front and all necessary appliances, including a thoroughly 
•equipped steam mill, and employing from, 50 to 175 skilled mechanics, Mr. Radclirfe's 
facilities for the construction and repair of wooden vessels of all classes are all that could 
be desired, and unsurpassed by any similar concern in this port. The work done in these 
jyards during 1886, amounted in value to nearly a quarter million dollars and included the 
construction of several large vessels complete. At this time, there are on the stocks two 
-.steamers — one for P. G. Minch, the other for M. A. Bradley, both of Cleveland — each 
of about two thousand tons burthen. 

Mr. Radcliffe is a native of Douglas, Isle of Man, and has resided in Cleveland most of 
the time since 1848. His skill as a marine architect is established, and he is a much re- 
spected old citizen. 



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GEO. A. FORD, 



General Machinist — Manufacturer of Steel Tackle Blocks, Wood and Metal Patterns, 
Experimental Machinery, etc. — No. 15}^ Frankfort St. 

Mr. Ford, previous to 1886, was for some sixteen years employed by the Internal! 
Revenue Department, from which he retired to establish himself in his present occupation 
of general machinist, machine blacksmith and patternmaker. Him- 
self an accomplished mechanic, occupying commodious quarters — 
four floors 80 x 149 feet at No. 15K Frankfort street — well equipped 
with all requisite machinery and appliances, and a thirty horse- 
power engine, and employing some twelve or fifteen skilled arti- 
H sans, Mr. Ford is well prepared to meet satisfactorily any demand 
that may be made upon his resources, whether in the line of light 
machinery, blacksmithing, forging, wood and metal patterns, or 
the repairing of bicycles, lawn-mowers, elevators, etc. 

Mr. Ford's establishment is headquarters for the manufacture of 
the new improved steel tackle block, a device which, lighter and 
twice as strong as the old-style wooden block, is rapidly replacing 
the latter on sea and land. It is simplicity and perfection com- 
bined, and meets with universal approbation wherever introduced, 
are of wrought steel, made by a single operation of the machinery perfected in 
Mr. Ford's works. It is Mr. Ford's intention to devote exclusive attention to this spe- 
cialty after this season. 

MERIAM & MORGAN PARAFFINE CO. 





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E. P. Morgan, President; Wm. Morgan, Superintendent; J. B. Meriam, Vice-Presi- 
dent and Treasurer — Manufacturers of Cold- Pressed Paraffine Oil, Refined Par- 
affine Wax, Paragon Axle Grease, Machinery, Spindle and Cylinder Oils, Car 
Grease, Paraffine Wax Candles, Paragon Spindle and Curriers' Finishing Oil — 
Office, Cenrral Way, Corner Ohio St.; Branch Offices, Boston, New York and 
Chicago. 

Messrs. C. L. Morehouse 
and J. B. Meriam foundedi 
this important industry in 
1863, the works being es- 
tablished on River street,, 
where they continued 
until 1869, operated at first 
by Morehouse & Meriam,, 
and later by Morehouse, 
Meriam & Co. In the year- 
last named Messrs. Meriam. 
& Morgan became proprie- 
tors and removed to the pres- 
ent location, Central Way 
corner of Ohio street, and 
subsequently the Meriam 
& Morgan Paraffine Co. was incorporated in 1874, with a paid up capital of $300,000 and 
officered as above. 

The factory premises are very large — four adjacent corner lots at Central Way and CanaL 
street, with 220 feet frontage on one railroad and 280 feet on another, besides six acres on 
which is located their refinery, with ample railroad frontage. The main buildings are four- 
in number, three and five stories in height and of corresponding area, each occupying one: 
of the lots referred to. One hundred operatives are employed, and the product, going to> 
all parts of the United States, of the highest quality, is valued at $600,000 annually, em- 
bracing the entire list at the head of this article, the specialties being cold-pressed paraf- 
fine oil, refined paraffine wax, paraffine wax candles,, and "Paragon" axle grease. 

In a recent circular the company sayj "The appreciation of the merits of our manu- 
factures has been most gratifying, and our relations with the trade in general and our cus- 
tomers in particular have been to us exceedingly pleasant. In the preparation of our 
paraffine products, cold-pressed paraffine oil, curriers' finishing oil, refined paraffine wax. 
and candles and the Paragon axle grease, we have given the best ability and skill we pos- 
sessed or could obtain, using always the most approved methods- and apparatus." 




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THE INDUSTRIES 01 CLEVELAND. 



WORSWICK MANUFACTURING CO. 



J. R. Worswick, President; E.Lewis, Vice-President; Jno. A. Prindle, Secretary 
and Treasurer — Manufacturers of Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings and Brass 
Goods — Jobbers of Plumbers', Gas and Steam Fitters' Tools and Supplies — 
Agents for Iron Pipe and Boiler Tubes — Corner Water and St. Clair Sts. 

The trade in the above-named goods has of late years reached vast proportions in all of 
the Eastern, Middle, Western and Southern States, and continues to grow with astonishing 
rapidity, the result o( improved gas and water systems adopted by all progressive cities 
and towns. As a consequence, manufacturers are in a prosperous condition, and more es- 
pecially is this true of those who have gained a reputation for keeping abreast of the times 
— such concerns, for instance, as the Worswick Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, 
which from the time of its inception in 1863 to the present has occupied a conspicuous po- 
sition in the front rank, more particularly of those leading establishments devoted to the 
production of malleable and cast iron fittings and brass goods adapted to the use of plumb- 
ers, gas and steam fitters. 

This company occupies two spacious five-story buildings, one 55 x 115, the other 15 x 100 
feet — the first at Water and St. Clair streets, the latter at No. 119 Water street — both fitted 
up in the best manner with improved machinery and appliances, and employing together 
a force of seventy-five men — book-keepers, clerks, skilled mechanics and laborers. Of 
their own specialties, just named, it is unnecessary to speak at length, since they are al- 
ready familiar to and unboundedly p<" pular with their trade everywhere throughout Penn- 
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, the Canadas and elsewhere. In addition to these 
goods, however, the company stands in the front rank of jobbers of plumbers', gas and 
steam fitters' tools and supplies, carrying a superb and varied stock from the most cele- 
brated makers. They are also general agents for the sale of superior iron pipe and boiler 
tubes, and fill all orders on the most favorable terms. 

President Worswick is an Englishman by birth, resident in Cleveland since early man- 
hood. Vice-President Lewis is also of English birth. Secretary and Treasurer Prindle is 
a Vermonter. The house has passed through many changes of personnel. 



ACME MACHINERY COMPANY. 



F. W. Bruch, M. D. Luehrs, C. Greve — Manufacturers ot Bolt and Nut Machinery — 
Cor. Belden and Hamilton Sts. 

The Acme Machinery Company, unincor- 
porated, was established by the gentlemen 
named above in 1884, and has already achieved 
remarkable success in the construction of spe- 
cial machinery which has attracted much at- 
tention both in this country and abroad, as is 
shown by their order book. Their leading 
specialty is the Acme bolt cutter, illustrated 
herewith, which possesses many advantages 
over any similar machine ever devised — is 
stronger, more durable and convenient, runs 
with greater ease and precision, and will 
thread more bolts and do it better in a given 
time. Of the other machinery made here it is 
unnecessary to say more than that it is on the 
same plane of excellence as the Acme bolt cutter. 

The works are eligibly located at Hamilton and Belden streets, are reached by the St. 
Clair street horse-cars, and on the line of the L. S. & M. S. railway, switches from which 
and from the C. & P. railway furnish ample shipping facilities. Their premises consist of 
a lot 120X 140 feet, on which they have erected a fine two-story brick machine-shop, 40 x 
120 feet, and boiler and engine-house 40 x 40 feet. The works are splendidly equipped with 
modern machinery and appliances, and, with the office, are kept in a neat, orderly and 
attractive condition. Fifty-five men are employed, and the output is very large. 




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McMYLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

'Sole Manufacturers of McMyler's Patent Portable Steam Derrick, Iron and Wood 
Dump Cars, Coal and Ore Buckets — The Seaton Header — No. 180 Columbus St. 

The works of the McMyler Manufacturing 
Company, while not doing so large a volume 
of business as some other industrial concerns, 
are performing a noble part in spreading 
abroad the fame of the city as a manufactur- 
ing center and attracting hither buyers of 
machinery and all other iron and steel goods 
of the more weighty, ingenious and costly 
character. They were established in 1882 
by Mr. John McMyler, an accomplished in- 
ventor, who admitted Mr. E. F. Atherton 
to a partnership in 1886. The latter is a 
skillful and experienced mechanic and prac- 
tical business man, and between the two they 
have built up a large and steadily increasing 
trade, footing up $150,000 for the past year, 
their products going to various parts of" the 
country, principally to the lake ports. Their 
specialties embrace a superior line of hoist- 
ing machinery, dump cars, Seaton bolt and 
rivet headers, etc., the construction of Mc- 
Myler's patent portable steam derrick (il- 
lustrated above) taking first place. This 
derrick, confessedly the most effective and substantial machine of the kind in existence, is 
Mr. McMyler's own device, and is indorsed by practical shippers and freight handlers 
everywhere. The company's iron and wood dump cars, coal . and ore buckets, etc., are also 
in universal demand where known, being economical, strong, simple, and the best labor- 
savers ever offered to miners. 

Another great specialty is the manufacture of the Seaton header, a wonderful machine 
for forging heads on bolts of all kinds — a machine that does at a single movement an 
hour's work of a skilled mechanic, and does it better and more unilormly. Its advantages 
:are thus summed up : It will cut, head and eject flat counter sunk heads with the same 
-ease as oval, cone, square or hexagon heads, which no other machine in the market will 
do. No trouble with cutters. One cutter will cut from ten to one hundred tons of iron. 
No change of adjustment ; ejector always ready on all lengths of bolts or rivets. Stock 
gauge, most perfect ever invented, can be adjusted while machine is in motion to 1000th of 
an inch if necessary. Can use long or square dies. When closed are perfectly solid. No 
friction on cam. Adjustment convenient, accurate and positive. No skilled labor required 
to feed it. Machine extra heavy and strong compared to other makes ; built to run every 
♦day in the year. Susceptible of very high speed, 60 to 200 revolutions per minute. 

This machine is made in three sizes — -No. I, for track bolts, two to five tons per day ; 
No. 2, % to i^-inch iron, one to four tons a day ; No. 3, Y% to 2-inch iron. 

PITTSBURGH & WHEELING COAL CO. 



R. L. Chamberlain, President, Cleveland ; C. L. Cutter, Secretary and Treasurer, 
Cleveland; A. J. Baggs, Manager, Bridgeport, O.; James Patterson, Sales 
Agent, Cleveland — Miners and Shippers of Bituminous Coal and Coke — Mines, 
Wheeling Creek and Pittsburgh ; Office, Room 29 Mercantile Bank Building, 
Cleveland. 

The Pittsburgh and Wheeling Coal Company, officered as above, was established in No- 
vember, 1879, and is a power in the fuel trade, owning and operating mines in the Wheel- 
ing Creek and Pittsburgh districts, on the line of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 
Railroad, with a capacity of two thousand tons daily, besides handling about one thousand 
tons per diem from other mines. The company employ 1300 men, and ship more steam 
-coal than any of their rivals in this market, their customers being for the most part the 
railways, steamboat lines and manufacturers who draw their fuel supplies from this and 
•other Ohio ports, lake shipments being made from Lorain. The company are also exten- 
sive manufacturers and shippers of coke. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



McCarthy & luck, 



Book Publishers — No. 209 Superior St., Wilshire Building. 




Educated and thriving communities are the paradise of the subscription book publisher, 
who puts within reach of the reading public a class of substantial works on solid subjects- 
not easily obtainable, thus conferring benefits upon people who must otherwise/ forego 
much that is most profitable in literature. 

One of the most popular publishing houses of this kind of which we have any personal 
knowledge is the firm of McCarthy & Luck, rooms 57 to 60 Wilshire buildings No. 209^ 
Superior street, established in 1883. They carry an immense stock of late and attractive 
books sold by subscription only, keep a large number of salesmen on the road, and employ 
several assistants in the office, their business being confined for the most part to the towns, 
villages and country along the lake shore as far west as Toledo and east to Erie. They 
handle subscription books of the better and higher-priced class exclusively, embracing 
histories, encyclopedias, and kindred publications. 

Mr. W. H. McCarthy and Mr. A. T. Luck are natives of Ohio. Both were formerly 
with William Edwards & Co., and are energetic gentlemen of high personal and business, 
standing. 

FOREST CITY FILE WORKS. 



J. and E. Moores Bros. — File and Rasp Manufacturers — Office, No. 26 South Water; 
Works, Nos. 18 to 24 Center St. 

^^HHHflHHHIH Mr. A. H. Moores founded this noted: 

industry in 1867, the works at first being 
located at Nos. 19 and 21 Columbus street.. 
Increase of business necessitated a removal 
later, upon the accession of Messrs. J. and 
E. Moores, to the present eligible site,, 
where the firm have a commodious one-and- 
two-story brick building, the ground floor 
60 feet square, the second floor 25x60 
feet. The capital invested in this plant is 
placed at $30,000. The works are provided 
with a costly equipment of the latest im- 
proved machinery known to the trade, and 
forty operatives in all are steadily employed, 
the product going to all parts of the United 
States and meeting with universal favor, being regarded by consumers as equal if not su- 
perior to the best imported goods. Everything made here bears the " Forest City " brand, 
and is fully guaranteed. 

The Messrs. Moores are natives of Warrington, England. Mr. John Moores is general 
business manager, Mr. E. Moores superintendent of the factory, and Mr. John Galvin fore- 
man. 




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J. M. MARTY, 

Inventor and Manufacturer of the " Ideal " Injector and Eiector — Dealer in Second* 
Hand Injectors — No. 46 South Water St. 

Mr. Marty began a course of independent gxperi-- 
ments on the injector in 1871, at LaCrosse> Wiscon- 
sin, finally establishing himself in Cleveland in 1884. 
His works, fitted up with all requisite machinery" 
and employing five first-class mechanics, occupy 
two floors, 45x30 feet, at No. 46 South Water 
street, and present daily a busy scene, the transac- 
tions averaging $5,000 a month in value, and ex- 
tending from ocean to ocean and from Labrador to' 
the Gulf of Mexico. 

Mr. Marty's specialty is the construction of the' 
'« Ideal" injector and the "Economy" ejector,, 
described below. The injector presents numerous' 
points of superiority over all others, of which t-h© 
most notable are : 
It is positive in 
its action ; it re- 
quires only one 
movement to start 
it ; it has fewer 
parts than any 

'Other positive double-tube injector ever made ; it has 
no wearing parts in movable tubes, round valve-seats 
•or complicated handle system ; it is the easiest and most 
■accessible to take apart and clean ; its connections are 
"very heavy and will stand any ordinary strain. 

The principal uses of the " Economy " ejector are in 
the forcing of water from sunken or water-logged hulls 
over the sides and for raising water to any desired ele- 
vation. It is operated by direct steam pressure on the syphon system, a small pipe con- 
veying the steam to the bottom, where it connects with a larger pipe perforated to re- 
ceive the water. Upon the admission of steam the fluid contents of the larger pipe are 
forced upward ; the vacuum immediately refills, is again forced upward, and the process 
•continues as long as the supplies of water and steam last. This ejector is in use every- 
where — may be seen in operation on board the city fire-boat and nearly all the tugs in 
the harbor — and gives universal satisfaction. 





RIVERSIDE FOUNDRY WORKS. 



Thomas Maher, C. A. Brayton and Joseph A. Stone, Proprietors ; Joseph A. Stone, 
Manager — Manufacturers of Machinery and Rolling Mill Castings — Office, No. 26 
Carter St. 

The manufacturing resources of Cleveland are practically unlimited, embracing almost 
-every description of machinery and machinery products. A flourishing establishment 
•exercising great influence upon the material interests of the city is the great Riverside 
Foundry Works, office No. 26 Carter street. Messrs. Thomas Maher, C. A. Brayton and 
J. A. Stone, car-wheel and machinery founders, are the proprietors, and Mr. J. A. 
Stone general manager and superintendent. The works were established in 1881, 
and in less than seven years have made a reputation as wide as the continent for 
excellence of their products, which comprise splendid lines of rolling-miii machinery, 
•chilled, semi-steel and soft rolls, chilled guides, light and heavy machinery castings, ingot 
molds, annealing pots, etc., a specialty being made of steel rolls and wire-drawing 
machinery. One hundred and fifty men are employed, the equipment of the plant in every 
department is complete, and sixty tons of finished work is the average day's output. 
Large and increasing orders are constantly being filled for railroads and iron manufac- 
turers all over the country, more particularly in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and 
Missouri. 

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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



JOHN J. FLICK, 



Butcher and Wholesale Dealer in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, etc. — Importer of Eng- 
lish Sheep Casings, All Kinds of Sausage Casings, Rennets, etc. — Renderer of 
Tallow, a Large Supply of Which is Always Kept on Hand — Manufacturer of Fer- 
tilizers for Farming Purposes — Nickel-Plate Stock Yards; Office, No. 1378 Forest 
St. ; Residence, No. 229 BeaclTSt. 

The Nickel-Plate 
stock yards were es- 
tablished in 1878 by 
Messrs. J ohn J. 
Flick and H. Rice, 
jr., and have done 
a prosperous busi- 
ness from the first. 
They occupy four 
acres of ground, on 
which are slaugh- 
ter-houses and fer- 
tilizing works 80 x 
200 feet. Twenty- 
five men are em- 
ployed, and 16,000 
beeves, 20, 000 
calves and sheep 
and a vast number 
of hogs are killed 
annually and the 
meat sold in Cleve- 
land and vicinity. 
The yards have 
ample accommoda- 
tions for fifty car- 
loads of live stock, 
which can be con- 
veniently kept and 
fed until required 

for market. Mr. Flick has an enviable reputation for the 'superior quality of his meats, 
-which are always fresh, fat, clean, healthy and attractive. 

The fertilizer works attached are very complete, and the output, made exclusively of 
blood and bones and therefore of the highest and most valuable grade, is eagerly sought 
"by scientific farmers, who appreciate and are willing to pay a fair price for a superior plant 
food. Orders sent to this firm are certain of receiving prompt attention, and will be filled 
in a manner to ensure perfect satisfaction. 




ROBINSON BROS. & CO., 

Manufacturers of " Forest City" Crackers, Biscuits, Fine Cakes and Prepared Flours 
—Office, No. 233 Pearl St. ; Factory, Nos. 52, 54 and 56 Vermont St. 

This is one of Cleveland's old established industrial concerns, founded by Pollock &Co., 
-who were succeeded by the Forest City Cracker Company, Messrs. Robinson Bros. & Co. 
assuming control about two years ago, since which time and the introduction of new 
methods and processes there has been a marked revival of prosperity. About thirty-five 
men are employed in office and factory, and a vast amount of profitable work is done. A 
•specialty is made of fine crackers, in the manufacture of which the firm enjoy decided 
advantages, and their goods of this kind are deservedly popular, as, indeed, are their bis- 
cuits and fine cakes, while their prepared flours, ready for immediate use on the griddle or 
in the oven, are quietly finding their way into every household in Northern Ohio where 
time is an object and delicious hot cakes and biscuits appreciated. 

Messrs. Thomas G. and Frank L. Robinson are Pi ttsburghers— Thomas G. formerly with 
Joseph Home & Co., and Frank L. with James McCleery & Co. 



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F. MUHLHAUSER & CO., 



Manufacturers of Fine Wool Shoddies, Garneted Rings, Botany Yarns — Colors to 
Order — Direct Importations — Boston, Paris, Huddersfield, Frankfort-on-Main, 
Strasburg — Pleasant St. 

. . - •• Shoddy is more generally used 

in the manufacture of woolen 
_.~iSiC: - l ~ — -' , goods of certain grades than is 

popularly supposed, and its 
production is a great and fast 
developing industry, involving 
vast capital and colossal com- 
mercial operations akin to, yet 
differing from those that char- 
acterize the trade in wool and 
cotton. 

One of the most extensive 
shoddy manufacturing estab-. 
lishments in the world is that 
of F. Muhlhauser & Co., a view 
of which is printed herewith. 
The premises, 140 x 700 feet, are 
covered with numerous brick buildings of various heights and dimensions, utilized for 
sorting, picking and carding purposes; the equipment of improved machinery is of the 
most complete and valuable description, embracing many ingenious devices constructed 
specially for this firm, and the plant as it stands represents an outlay of $300,000. Three 
hundred skilled and unskilled operatives are employed, and the product is valued at $700,- 
000 per annum. A specialty is made of high-grade shoddies, and branch houses are 
maintained for the handling of these materials at leading American and European woolen 
manufacturing centers, the imports comprising superior lines of fine garneted rings, 
Botany yarns, etc. Colors are made to order. The capacity is 3,000,000 pounds per 
annum. 

This firm is composed of Messrs. F. Muhlhauser, a German by birth, who emigrated to 
this country with his parents when five years old, and M. B. Schwab, of American birth. 
They cater for the woolen goods industry in all its branches— manufacturers of cloth, 
underwear, knit goods, hosiery, yarns, etc. 




THE GLOBE ELECTRIC COMPANY. 



This is a comparatively young company, established at No. 46 South Water street. It 
was organized by T. M. Irvine and W. E. Irish, about twelve months ago, for the pur- 
pose of manufacturing, importing and dealing in all electrical apparatus and supplying 
European electrical specialties, for which they are agents. They are doing a very active 
business, and have all desirable facilities and well-selected skilled mechanics for turning 
out a great deal of fine and ingenious wprk of the very best quality. We mention a few 
as samples of the specialties owned or manufactured by this enterprising company : Every 
description of testing apparatus for electric light, telegraph and telephone companies; 
telegraph instruments, railway block instruments, switches, switchboards; semi-incan- 
descent and arc electric lamps, electro-motors, marine electric sounding apparatus, police 
and fire brigade telegraohs, electric stop motion for looms and other machines, tempera- 
ture-indicating and alarm apparatus, shot-firing or blasting apparatus, military field tele- 
graph and naval torpedo equipments, automatic fire alarms and extinguishers, and a large 
variety of others which space will not permit us to mention. The shops are well fitted up, 
with an eye to effectiveness rather than display, and contain a variety of improved ma- 
chinery adapted to the special work to which it is the intention of the company to con 
tinue rigorously to devote its energy and resources. Many of the specialties manufactured 
by this company possess great merit and are a sure guarantee of its continued success, 
which has hitherto far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the promoters. W. E. 
Irish, the genial manager, also general manager of the Irish Electric Railway Co., is an 
Englishman who has devoted all of his life since boyhood to the study and practical appli- 
cation of electricity, and in his chosen calling has few equals. 



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O'DONNELL & BARRETT, 

Builders of Elevators and Dumb Waiters — No. 53 Center St. 

Of all modern devices for the saving of time and labor we know of none which has a 
higher claim upon the consideration of architects, builders, property-owners, tenants of tall 
buildings and city people generally, than the elevator. From its first introduction m the 
rude form of a hoist for the transfer of goods from basement to attic and back again, it has 
grown in favor and perfection until now no building of three or four stories is considered 
desirable for office, business or residence purposes unless provided with an elevator suited 
to the uses to which it is liable to be put. 

Among the noted elevator builders who make Cleveland the base of their operations may 
be mentioned Messrs. O'Donnell & Barrett, whose well equipped factory occupies the first 
and second floors of the three-story brick building No. 53 Center street, the iron work being 
done below and the wood and other work above. This firm was established in 1866, by Bar- 
rett & Son, and has been quite successful, having originated many improvements in this 
-class of machinery. The safety device invented by this firm and illustrated on the oppo- 
site page is worthy of special mention. It is positive in its action, safety dogs being oper- 
ated from the counterpoise weight, no springs or catches being used. Each machine is 
tested by them by cutting cables when elevator platform is loaded at top of building, or at 
any other point. They invite special attention to the strength and security of their top 
" sheave timbers ;" in all cases they use the very best quality seasoned oak. This is a very 
important point about any elevator. 

In 1886 they built twenty-six steam, hydraulic and hand elevators, besides doing a large 
amount of jobbing and repairs. Mr. O'Donnell is a Baltimorean, a practical elevator 
builder, and came into the firm last November. Messrs. Barrett, father and son, are 
skillful machinists, and Mr. George Barrett has charge of all iron work done here, Mr. 
O'Donnell superintending the wood-working department. The firm invite correspondence 
and investigation, and have a promising future before them. 




Dealers of Mahogany, Rosewood and Native Hardwood Lumber — No. 130 Central 

Way. 

Messrs. John T. Martin and Wm. H. Barriss formed their present co-partnership in the 
spring of 1882, and, being enterprising and industrious gentlemen, have succeeded in 
building up a large and steadily increasing trade, extending all over Ohio, the Eastern, 
Western and Southern States, obtaining their supplies of mahogany, rosewood, etc., from 
Mexico, Central and South America, and of walnut, cherry, ash, oak, poplar and maple 
from various portions of our own country. They employ some fifteen men, and their yards, 
heavily stocked with selected hardwood lumber, and located on Central Way, cover ground 
200x275 f eet > adjoining the principal railway tracks, and with fine dock facilities on the 
river. Their office is at No. 130 Central Way, and buyers will find one or other of the 
firm ready to wait upon them at any time during business hours. 



THE INDUSTRIES OE CLEVELAND 



THE I. N. TOPLIFF MANUFACTURING CO. 



I. N. Topliff, President ; W. P. Todd, Manager— Carriage Hardware Specialties — E. 
Prospect St. and C. & P. R. R. 




The bow-socket is that part of the hardware of a carriage which holds securely the 
ends of the bows, and the bows are the frame-work which, covered with varnished leather 
or oil-cloth, is called the " top " of a buggy or similar vehicle. Few persons not connected 
with the trade have any accurate idea of the enormous number of these bow-sockets con- 
sumed annually by the carriage-makers of this and other countries, but some notion of the 
subject may be drawn from the well-substantiated fact that one Cleveland house — the I. 
N. Topliff Manufacturing Company — turns out 1,000 sets every working day, the annual 
output aggregating $300,000 in value. 

Mr. I. N. Topliff is the inventor of the steel bow-socket and of the machinery by which 
it is made. He established himself in the business on a small scale in 1879, making then 
from 75 to 100 sets per day. His orders increased rapidly, however, and, adding to his. 
facilities from time to time, he is now at the head of the largest, best equipped, and most 
famous manufacturing establishment of the kind in the world, comprising a great two- 
story brick factory building, 106x175 ^ eet » provided with forges, dies, steam hammers,, 
etc., a smaller building devoted to the production of fuel gas from crude oil, and another 
for japanning and drying. From 125 to 200 men are employed, and a busier place it 
would be hard to find. The bow-sockets made here are the best in the market, from the 
best steel, beautifully finished, and greedily taken by the trade everywhere. We have 
not space for a full description of the works and the processes employed, which we regret. 

The present style was adopted last March, with Mr. Topliff as president and Mr. W. 
P. Todd manager. ' 



CONRAD MIZER, 

Tailor — Savings and Trust Co.'s Building, No. 42 Euclid Ave. 

Few men are indifferent to the attractions of good clothes, of fine texture, neat fit and 
first-class workmanship. But on the other hand few men are competent to select what 
best becomes them, for an all-wise Providence has seen proper to construct the race upon 
the plan of infinite variety as regards stature, breadth, avoirdupois, complexion and facial 
contour, so that the garment which in style sets off one's form to the queen's taste may 
make another ridiculous. And it is just here that the services of the experienced artist 
tailor are of most value. Such a tailor is Mr. Conrad Mizer, whose elegant establishment 
under the Savings and Trust Company's bank, No. 42 Euclid avenue, is the habitual resort 
of many of Cleveland's most critical and fashionable gentlemen. Mr. Mizer's facilities, 
are of the best — doing all his own cutting — and include some twenty superior journeymen. 
Hecarries a very large and choice stock of suitings, etc., to select from, including the finest 
imported weaves — Scotch tweeds, West of England cloth, Thibets, undressed worsteds, 
Meltons, kerseys, Martine's diagonals, etc., received through leading Eastern houses.. 
The fashions presented to his customers are all of the choicest and exclusiveiy American 
style. All garments made here are silk-lined and guaranteed unexcelled in this market 
as to fit, style, workmanship and finish. 

Mr. Mizer has had an extensive and valuable experience in his business, of which his. 
patrons derive the benefit, whereby those who frequent his store are known as the best 
dressed gentlemen in the city of Cleveland. He established himself at No. 140 Superior 
street in 1883, and removed to Euclid avenue in 1886. 



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VOUWIE BROS., 



Warranted 



Manufacturers of Forest City Baking Powder and Flavoring Extracts — Nos. 63 Water 
St., Cleveland, and 54 Michigan Ave., Chicago. 

There are few things that more nearly 
affect the health and happiness of the 
people than the baking powder used in 
their biscuits, bread and pastry, and the 
flavoring extracts employed to impart 
zest and palatability to the various 
made dishes of every-day consumption 
upon the tables of all classes who live 
even moderately well. Purity — the 
avoidance of all deleterious sub- 
stances — in the compounding and 
manufacture of these essential articles 
is of the first importance, cheapness is 
a secondary consideration; but when 
both purity and cheapness are com- 
bined it would seem useless to look 
further. This is what Messrs. Vouwie 
Brothers, proprietors and manufac- 
turers of the celebrated Forest City 
Baking Powder and flavoring extracts, 
claim to have accomplished, and if a- 
rapidly growing demand for their goods 
is any criterion of excellence, the claim 
is amply sustained. 

Messrs. John H. and Henry J. 
Vouwie are natives of Cleveland, and embarked in the manufacture of the specialties 
named in 1876, at the corner of Woodland avenue and Mayflower street. With the lapse 
of time their business increased to such an extent that it became necessary to set k larger 
accommodations, and in 1884 they removed to No. 68 Water street, where they occupy 
six floors and basement, 30 feet front by 120 feet deep, fitted up in the best manner with 
improved mills and all other requisite machinery. Sixty persons are employed, thirty of 
whom are salesmen — eighteen on the road and twelve stationed in various cities. They 
also maintain a big branch establishment at No. 54 Michigan avenue, Chicago, and have 
a splendid trade all over the United States. 




" IN THE 

Vouwie: 
•Baps- 

CtfVOAND 
8. CHICAGO 



CLEVELAND PAPER BOX FACTORY. 



John M. Sterling, Manager — Nos. 11 1 and 113 Water St. 

It were a bootless task to even compile a list of the uses to which paper boxes are found 
applicable in every branch of mercantile and some manufacturing pursuits, for the neat 
and convenient packing of a thousand varieties of goods hitherto clumsily done up with 
paper and string. Suffice it to say, few merchants can afford to entirely dispense with 
paper boxes, and they are constantly being put to new uses. As a consequence the man- 
ufacture of these handy receptacles has grown into a great industry, which yet appears in 
its infancy, so infinite seems the field for its development. 

A prominent local representative house in this branch of enterprise is the Cleveland 
Paper Box Factory, Nos. Ill and 113 Water street, of which Mr. John M. Sterling is. 
manager, established on a small scale in 1872 by Atwater & Co., and now occupying two 
floors (cellar and second story), 50 x 125 feet, at the above location. A valuable equip- 
ment of latest improved machinery and some twenty-five hands are employed, and the 
output reaches some thirty thousand dollars annually, most of which is made to order for 
the local trade. The concern has no particular specialty, but turns out a complete line 
of paper boxes of every style, size and shape required, all work being first-class in all 
essentials. 

Mr. Sterling is 50 years of age, a native of Ohio, and was for ten years a city police: 
commissioner. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



BOWLER & CO., 



Manu'acturers of Chilled Car, Engine, Truck and Mining Wheels, Steel-Tyred 
Wheels, Axles, Machinery and Building Castings, etc. — Wheel Foundry, Besse- 
mer St. : Machinery Foundry and Office, No. 14 Winter St. 

Besides the two large manufacturing establishments hitherto conducted by them — one, 
the Cleveland frog and crossing works, located on Fall street, Mr. Geo. C. Lucas, superin- 
tendent, where a specialty is made of the Lucas patent steel filling for frogs, crossings, 
etc. ; the other, the works on Winter street, quite extensive and devoted principally to the 
production of heavy machinery and architectural castings — Messrs. Bowler & Co. have 
recently erected anew foundry on Bessemer avenue, expressly for the casting of car wheels, 
one of the completest establishments of the kind in the world, constructed from original 
designs, equipped upon the most liberal scale in every department, and provided with all 
practical modern improvements and facilities. The building is 140 x 200 feet in dimensions, 
one end facing Bessemer avenue and the other the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway. 

The sidings are a special feature which deserve mention. The track running to one end 
of the building is raised to a charging platform forty-eight feet in width and twenty feet 
above the level of the molding floor. Here the raw material of every kind is received, 
and delivered directly to the pile from which it is to be used in charging the cupolas, two 
in number. It has storage capacity for 500 tons of the various grades of charcoal iron 
used, and several car-loads of coke. Upon this platform is a thousand-pound hammer, 
with a drop of fifteen feet, for breaking old wheels. Its capacity is at least thirty wheels 
an hour — a vast improvement over the old-time sledge-hammer. Another spur runs on a 
lower level to the other end of the building to receive the finished product. The floor- 
plan is entirely novel. Beginning at the south end (underneath the platform mentioned 
above), the middle portion is occupied by two cupolas, one 5 feet in diameter, with a 
capacity of 125 wheels per day, and the other 6^ feet in diameter, with a daily capacity 
of 300 wheels. A large Roots blower furnishes blast, and by an ingenious application of 
mercury in a U-shaped tube, the blast can be exactly determined. 

In the engine room, adjoining the cupolas, is a 100 h. p. Lord, Bowler & Co. engine, 
which drives the blower and shafting that propels the cranes. In the room adjoining is 
the department for turning up axles, boring wheels, and putting them on axles. To the 
left of the cupolas is the sand bin, and next adjoining this are the core ovens. There are 
three ovens, 10 feet square, each holding 100 cores. 

In the middle portion of the shop, of course, are the molding floors. A central shaft, 
running the entire length of the building, conveys the power by belts and gears to sixteen 
cranes, each surrounded by a molding floor, the total capacity being about 320 wheels per 
day. On either side of the room are overhead tramways, by which the wheels are run to 
the cooling or annealing pits at the further end. Over these pits is a traveling crane run- 
ning across the shop and propelled by means of a cable and drum. After remaining in the 
pits three or four days, for the purpose of securing slow and even contraction, the wheels 
are removed and cleaned up ready for shipment. The chill is, of course, secured on the 
original castings by contact of the molten metal with a cold iroivring. 

N. P. Bowler established this house in 1863. A year later Wm. Bowler and Thomas 
Maher were admitted, and in 1870 Mr. C. A. Brayton became a partner, the firm adopting 
the style of Bowler, Maher & Brayton. The two last named retired in 1880, whereupon 
Mr. W. W. Balkwill was admitted, and the style changed to Bowler & Co. The wheels, 
railroad frogs, crossings, turnouts, etc., of the firm are celebrated for their excellence of 
material and workmanship, and are in use all over this continent, the demand increasing 
steadily from year to year. 

GEORGE FAULHABER, 

Manufacturer of Church Furniture, No. 555 Scranton Ave. 

Mr. Faulhaber has had long and valuable experience in the manufacture of church fur- 
niture of all kinds, having established his factory here in 1879, which is fully equal to any 
demands made upon it from the business which Mr. Faulhaber has succeeded in building 
up. His machinery outfit for wood-working is complete, embracing all late improvements, 
and a competent force of skilled Avorkmen is constantly employed, the work 
turned out including every description of pulpits, rails, seats, etc., a specialty being made 
of Mr. Faulhaber's own three-curve circular pews, which are protected by letters patent, 
are of his own invention, and are the most elegant, graceful and comfortable ever designed. 

Mr. F. is an old resident of Cleveland, and has an extensive trade, his work being ar- 
tistic, beautiful and attractive. 



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THE LAKE VIEW GRANITE WORKS. 

Carabelli & Broggini, Proprietors — Sculptors and Builders of Granite Monuments of 
the Highest Order- — Opposite Lake View Cemetery. 

One of the encouraging signs of the growth of good 
taste and a love of art in this country is the improved 
character of the mortuary sculpture that of late years has 
superseded the rude efforts of former times, and which 
contributes so much to the appropriate adornment of our 
" cities of the dead." Among the most successful monu- 
mental sculptors in this country are Messrs. Carabelli and 
Broggini, who established themselves at the east end of 
Euclid avenue, opposite the entrance to Lake View 
cemetery, in 1880. At that time these talented and skill- 
ful men had little else in the world save their well- 
trained hands, stout hearts and industry with which to 
engage in the struggle for success in a strange land and 
in the face of powerful competition. That they have suc- 
ceeded is proven by their books, which show the execu- 
tion of orders to the value of $50,000 for the past year, 
including some of the finest work in Lake View and 
other local cemeteries, besides soldiers' monuments at 
New Philadelphia and Elyria, Ohio, the latter costing 
$8,000. 

Messrs. Carabelli and Broggini are natives of Northern 
Italy, where they acquired the theoretical and practical 
knowledge of sculpture that has proven so valuable to 
them in the land of their adoption. They occupy extensive works, provided with a polish- 
ing mill run by a twenty-five horse power engine, and employ thirty-four skilled workmen, 
most of whom are their fellow-countrymen, trained in the best school of the art as prac- 
tical sculptors. The work done here is of the best class as regards design and finish, and 
commands the attention and admiration of all who are capable of appreciating the beau- 
tiful in art. 

The firm do much valuable work for private parties in the way of carvings and statuary, 
and give careful attention to the setting up of monuments in any part, of the country, 
whether of their own production or imported. 



ECLIPSE IRON WORKS. 



John and Thomas Macbeth, Proprietors — Manufacturers of Architectural Iron Work 
— Corner Center and Winslow Sts. 

The employment of iron for building purposes — as supports, braces, girders, fronts, 
etc. — is rapidly growing in favor and is a sure indication of a spirit among builders that 
must eventually result in structural changes that will render American houses of all classes 
the most substantial and enduring in the world, while at the same time preserving the 
graceful lines and light appearance so dear to the artistic eye. Among those who have 
contributed largely to this result the firm of John and Thomas Macbeth, proprietors of 
the Eclipse Iron Works, of Cleveland, stands conspicuous. These works were established 
in 1870, and have always occupied a leading position in the trade, their "specialties em- 
bracing an infinite variety in designs for store fronts, columns, lintels, gratings, stairs, rail- 
ings, etc., besides every description of beams, girders, oven, furnace, rolling mill and 
sewer work, machine castings of all kinds — in short, anything and everything required in 
the way of iron work for building and kindred purposes. 

The works, located at the corner of Center and Winslow streets, near the viaduct, were 
established in the year named by Messrs. John Macbeth and Robert Chambers, Mr. 
Thomas Macbeth succeeding Mr. Chambers in 1886. The capital invested is about 
$30,000, the premises comprising an immense brick building with office attached. Forty 
men are regularly employed at good wages, and the output, valued at $50,000 for the past 
year and constantly increasing,'is shipped to all interior Ohio towns or made to the order 
of local builders. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



THE MORGAN RUN COAL AND MINING CO. 



F. C. Goff, President ; H. D. Dennis, Secretary and Treasurer — Mines in Coshocton 
County; Office, 12 Bratenahl Block. 

Of the numerous coal com- 
panies who make Cleveland 
their headquarters, we know 
of none that has accomplished 
more or is in better shape finan- 
cially and otherwise than the 
Morgan Run Coal Company,, 
office, 12 Bratenahl block. This 
company was organized and in- 
corporated with a capital of 
$200,000 in 1871. Mr. F. C. 
Goff is president and Mr. H. D. 
Dennis, secretary- — both prom- 
inent and successful business 
men. The company owns 200a 
acres of superior coal lands in 
Coshocton county, where they 
operate one of the finest drift 
mines in the State, and produce 
150 tons of the best quality of fuel per day — a grade of coal that is pronounced un- 
equaled for domestic heating purposes and especially for grates. The company also own 
and operate a line of railway three miles in length, running from the mines to Morgan 
Run station, on the Cleveland & Canton railroad, and when that road is thoroughly 
equipped for transportation purposes the output will be increased to 600 tons a day. 

This company's fuel is in growing demand, both for domestic purposes and the genera- 
tion of steam, and is eagerly sought by consumers here and all along the lakes. 



UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PORT- 
LAND, MAINE. 

W. P. Abel, Agent — Room 28 Wilshire Building. 

The plain endowment policy of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Portland, 
Me., offers advantages well worthy of grave note. Whether these policies mature as 
death losses or by the expiration of their terms, whether regarded as insurance pro- 
tection simply or as protection during a term of years and investment at the end of the 
term, they are profitable and remunerative, and present advantages which cannot be 
secured by any other form of insurance. 

The company issues endowment policies which mature in ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five y 
thii'ty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, and fifty years, and at the age of eighty-five. For the pur- 
poses of illustration, an average policy at the average age at which persons generally in- 
sure will be taken — a twenty-five year endowment issued at the age of thirty-five; but it is 
to be borne in ??iind that proportional advantages will result from any other term and any other 
age of issue. Looking at the policy in question, as a matter of insurance protection, in 
the first place : 

The annual premium to be paid in each year, for age 35, during the twenty-five years, is 
$39-68. 

The plain life premium at the same age is $26.38. 

The difference, $13.30, is the cost of the additional agreement by the company to pay the sum 
insured, $1,000, at the end of the endowment period of twenty-five years. Under the life-policy 
the amount insured would be payable only in case of death, no matter how much the life 
of the party insured might be prolonged. $13.30 per year, therefore, during the twenty- 
five years, or $332.50, represents the cost of the certainty of receiving $1,000 at the age 
of 60, over and above the possibility of not receiving it until the insured reached the age 
of 80, 85, 90, or even later. If the insured should live to the age of 72, he would then 
have paid, in additional life premiums, the difference between the life and en- 
dowment premiums during the twenty-five years, and still have a more than 




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fair chance of living to pay a still further large sum. The additional cost of the 
tiventyfive year endowment, therefore, is very slight, compared with the greater advantages result- 
ing from the increased payment. But suppose the insured should die during the term, hav- 
ing kept his policy in force by the regular and consecutive payment of the premiums: if 
he should die after having made fezv or many of his payments, his family would receive $i,och>, 
with additions, or if he has used his dividends to reduce premiums while the policy was 
in force, which would greatly reduce the cost of his endowment, then, of course, the 
amount paid him would be $1,000, 

The Union Mutual is also writing a policy termed the Maine Convertible, giving general 
satisfaction, and embracing the features of an endowment at life rates. 

The company fixes a cash value to this policy, making it an absolute guarantee and a 
part of the policy contract, thereby doing away with estimates given by so many com- 
panies, thus giving to the insured a contract on which he can rely that it will be carried 
out to the letter, and a consolation that he is insured in a good, reliable company, and 
should his death occur while his policy is in force, his widow and orphans would be pro- 
vided for. 

The Union Mutual was organized in 1849 as a stock company, but the next year reim- 
bursed the stockholders and reorganized on the mutual basis. It operates under the very 
conservative insurance laws of Maine, and is one of the markedly successful mutual life 
insurance corporations. Mr. W. P. Abel, of room 28 Wilshire block, is the agent here,, 
and will cheerfully furnish all desired information. 



KLEIN, MARKS & CO., 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Men's Furnishing Goods — Nos. 137 and 139 Bank St. 

This house, founded by Hays Brothers, passed into the hands of Klein & Lehman in 
1885, and on the first of February last the present firm, composed of Messrs. Henry F. 
Klein and Martin A. Marks, succeeded. Mr. Klein was born and reared in Cleveland 
and was connected with the firm of Hays Brothers. Mr. Marks came here from Madison, 
Indiana, on the formation and establishment of the present firm. Both are good business 
4 men of large experience and great energy, and have made such a pronounced success of 
their venture that a removal to more commodious quarters was needful, and they accord- 
ingly left their old location at No. 129 Bank street to occupy their present handsome four- 
story double block, where they have excellent facilities for conducting a very large busi- 
ness in men's furnishing goods, of which they handle vast quantities both as manufacturers 
and jobbers, buying the uncut materials in large lots and having them manufactured to 
order under their own supervision, their specialties embracing everything known to the 
trade in fine and medium grades of the latest styles and best workmanship. They are 
already headquarters in this city for Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania 
buyers, and expect to still further enlarge their field of operations as the inducements they 
offer become more widely known. 



G. F. VATTELER, 

Manufacturer of Church Organs — No. 1 1 Jennings Ave. 

Mr. Vatteler is a famous organ builder, instruments of his construction being found in 
many of the finest churches in this country, -where they are regarded as equal in all re- 
spects to those of any other manufacturer in existence. His work covers the entire 
range of church organs, from the simple single key-board with ten stops to the grand 
instrument of three key-boards and forty-two stops. The most accurate skill and greatest 
care are exercised to render these organs perfect in style, workmanship, material and tone, 
and none but accomplished workmen, faithful and conscientious, are employed, all of 
whom are under the immediate personal supervision of Mr. Vatteler himself. Everything 
save the mere rough preparation of the lumber and castings is done by hand, thus insur- 
ing exact accuracy in each part and the best possible results as a whole. As an evidence 
of the high standing accorded Mr. V.'s organs it may be stated that about twenty of the 
best instruments in the churches of Cleveland are from his establishment, founded in 1857. 

Mr. Vatteler's factory, 25 x 50 feet, three stories, with annex, is located at No. 1 1 Jen- 
nings avenue, and is complete in all departments. He builds organs of any desired grade* 
valued at from $800 to $5,000. 



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THE INDUSTRIES 01 CLEVELAND. 



FOREST CITY WIRE AND IRON WORKS. 



Geo. W. 



Merrell and Geo. B. Merrell, Proprietors — Manufacturers of Steel and Brass 
Wire Cloth and Wire and Iron Work — No. in Franklin Ave. 

Wire goods and ornamental and architectural 
iron work are coming into more general use 
year by year, and machinery for their produc- 
tion barely keeps pace with the demand. A 
prominent concern in this industry is the Forest 
City Wire and Iron Works, No III Franklin 
avenue, Cleveland, of which Messrs. Geo. W, 
and Geo. B. Merrell, successors to the Forest 
City Wire Cloth Company, are proprietors. The 
works occupy a substantial two-story building 
60x140 feet, and are well fitted up with boilers, 
engine, gas engine, twenty-two wire looms, 
punches, drills, lathes and a variety of other 
suitable machinery, employ thirty men and wo- 
men, and do a very large business in the aggre- 
gate, the specialties including every description 
of wire cloth and ornamental and architectural 
wire and iron work and fine brass work, office 
and bank railings, door and window guards, 
elevator enclosures, door and window screens, 
roof cresting, sidewalk grating, fire escapes, 
sand, lime and coal screens, foundry riddles and 
sieves, wire forms and stands, flower baskets and 
stands, spark guards, twist wire netting, bar 
fixtures, wire and iron fencing, etc. 




PAIGE CAR WHEEL COMPANY. 



Julius E. French, President ; W. H. Silverthorn, Secretary; W. S. Dodge, Treas- 
urer ; Ross Kells, Superintendent — Manufacturers of Page's Patent Steel Tyred 
Wheels — Factory, Mason St. ; Office, No. 211 Superior St. 

. The Paige patent car-wheel, in plan of construction, is suggestive at once of strength 
and durability and perfect adaptation to passenger, sleeping and drawing-room cars, loco- 
motive and tender trucks. These wheels are made with wrought steel ^tyres, four inches 
thick through tread, and best quality steel side-plates, securely bolted and so combined as 
to render them absolutely safe, durable and noiseless. These wheels were first introduced 
in 1876, and their continued and constantly increasing use — nearly seventy railroads having 
•adopted them — -has fully demonstrated their superior merits and established 'their reputa- 
tion and success. 

The tyre (of wrought steel) is four inches deep through the tread. It is not heated, but 
secured in place by means of steel side-plates half an inch thick, forced into the tyre and 
into the hub at the same time by hydraulic pressure ; and to make them doubly secure, the 
plates are bolted together. A hollow space is left between the plates and between the hub 
and tyre, which renders the wheel less liable to retain heat from brake service than any 
•other, and causes all contraction and expansion to affect all parts of the wheel alike. This 
company has the official record of mileage of a large number of wheels furnished to railroads, 
showing 200,000 miles run before a first turning. One important advantage of this form 
•of tyre section is due to the manner of rolling, which renders the tyre more homogeneous 
where it comes in contact with the rail. 

The shops of the company, on the lake shore at the foot of Mason street, cover an acre 
•of ground, are equipped with a full complement of new and improved special machinery 
and tools, employ a large number of skilled workmen, and are under the personal super- 
vision of Mr. Ross Kells. The establishment is producing some seventy-five wheels daily, 
perfect in every particular. The office is at No. 211 Superior street. 



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THE HILL MANUFACTURING CO. (Limited). 

J. B. Perkins, President; Jos. W. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer; A. J. Hill, Man- 
ager — Manufacturers of the Hill Incubators, Brooders, and all Kinds of Poultry- 
Raising Appliances — Lithograph Building, Nos. 76 to 100 Wood St. 

• The artificial hatching and rearing 

==^~ T -, - - of chickens and other poultry, where- 

"' ! by the services of the mother hen 
are dispensed with from the time she 
lays the eggs, has received much 
attention of late years, and improve- 
ments in methods and appliances are 
made from time to time, each con- 
tributing to the simplification of pro- 
cesses and the certainty of results. 
The most progressive and successful 
inventor in this department of in- 
vestigation and experiment is Mr. A. 
J. Hill, formerly of Beloit, Wiscon- 
sin, now of Cleveland, whose appa- 
ratus is conceded the palm for per- 
fection of design and operation, in 
competition with all others. His 
devices cover the entire ground and 
include a complete line of incubators, 
brooders and poultry-raising appli- 
ances of ingenious design and con- 
struction which recommend them- 
selves on sight to intelligent students of this industry and in practical operation have no 
rivals. They are now employed in many of the principal poultry-raising centers of the 
United States, Canada and Europe, and give universal satisfaction wherever introduced. 

The Hill Manufacturing Co., limited, controls this unequaled line of poultry-breeding 
apparatus. Mr. J. B. Perkins, the president, is a very prominent citizen and business 
man, owner of the splendid and costly Wilshire, Blackstone and Perkins Power build- 
ings, and president of the Walker Manufacturing Co. Secretary and Treasurer Joseph W. 
Smith came to Cleveland from Urbana in 1886. Mr. A. J. Hill is a Bostonian by birth. 
The warerooms of the company at present occupy 100 x 100 feet on the ground floor of the 
beautiful Lithograph building, corner Wood and St. Clair streets, where, equipped with 
steam power and an ample equipment of wood and metal-working machinery, and em- 
ploying a good force of skillful mechanics under the personal direction of Mr. Hill, they 
for the time being keep up with their orders, though it is evident that ere long their facil- 
ities must be increased to meet the growing demand, the sales for this first year reach- 
ing $50,000 in value. 

UNION ROLLING MILL CO. 



S. W. Sessions, President ; A. S. Upson, Vice-President ; A. R. Treadway, Secre- 
tary ; S. A. Fuller, Treasurer and General Manager — Manufacturers of Bar Iron, 
Angle Splices, Light T and Street Rails and Pig Iron — Mills at Newburgh, Ohio ; 
Office, No. 122 Water St., Cleveland. 

The mills of the Union Rolling Mill Company were originally erected by the .-Etna Iron 
Company at Newburgh, Ohio, soihe twenty years ago, coming into possession of the present 
corporation in 1880. Great improvements have since been made in the plant, which now 
comprises an immense iron-covered frame mill 200 x 400 feet, and a large blast furnace of 
40,000 tons capacity annually. The capital stock invested is $300,000; 500 men are em- 
ployed ; the pay-roll averages $1,000 a day, and the yearly product is valued at $1,500,000,. 
the leading specialty being high-grade merchant bar iron, though immense quantities of 
angle splices, light T and street rails are made to order, and a great deal of superior pig 
iron put upon the market, buyers being easily found for all their products in all parts of 
Ohio and the W^est. 

The officers of the company are named above. All are prominent business men of rec- 
ognized character and standing. Mr. S. A. Fuller, the treasurer and general manager, 
who may be found at all reasonable hours in the company's Cleveland office, No. 122 
Water street, is a native of Ohio, an enterprising, courteous and liberal-minded gentleman. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



IRON CLAD PAINT CO. 



A. Everett, President ; James Wade, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager— Factory, 
Nos. 75 and 77 Central Way ; Office, 3 Case Building. 

The renowned "Iron-clad 
Paint " was originally intro- 
duced by a paint and roofing 
company in 1867 — twenty years 
ago — the present Iron-clad 
Paint Company being organized 
and incorporated in 1871, with 
2 a capital stock of $50,000. The 
> works, Nos. 75 and 77 Central 
ffpj^ Way, occupy three large three- 
3=£ * story brick and frame buildings, 
especially fitted up for the pur- 
pose to which they are devoted 
and containing much ingenious and valuable machinery. The office is in room 3 Case 
building, where Secretary and Manager James Wade may be found at all reasonable 
hours, prepared to answer inquiries and fill orders for the "Iron-clad" paint. The output 
ranges from 800 to 1000 tons annually, which is shipped all over the United States, Can- 
ada, Mexico, and to some extent to Europe. 

" Iron-clad " paint derives its chief excellence from the fact that it is made from the 
best iron ore combined by a special process with pure oil, thus acquiring the much sought 
property of great resistance to atmospheric and climatic changes. It is produced in 
four colors — rossie red, two shades of brown, and brown purple — the red containing, by 
analysis, 42.23 per cent, metallic iron, the light brown 54.11, the brown 63, and the 
brown-purple 65.60 per cent. These paints are largely used for painting all wood and 
metal surfaces exposed to the weather, and are pronounced unapproachable for excellence, 
convenience and cheapness. 




Trade Mark Patented 



Lit Patented. 



FULLER'S STEAM CARPET CLEANING WORKS. 



Dreman & Melcher, Proprietors — Nos. 291 and 293 Quincy St., Opposite Woodland 

Cemetery. 

Messrs. J. H. Dre- 
man and J. H. Melcher 
last year became pro- 
prietors of these works, 
established in 1871 by 
John N. Fuller, and 
have greatly improved 
them, enlarging their 
capacity and in other 
ways adding to their 
effectiveness. Five men 
and a variety of mod- 
ern machinery are em- 
ployed, including two 
tumblers and a Hun- 
sche's patent cleaning 
machine, and the ca- 
pacity is now 3000 
yards per day, the whip- 
ping and washing being 

done in the best possible manner and the carpets thoroughly renovated. Carpets are 
taken up, cleaned and relaid or packed for shipment or storage at short notice, and satis- 
faction guaranteed, at moderate charges. 

The works occupy a two-story building, 35 x 100 feet, and are provided with a boiler 
and a 15-horse power engine. On the first floor is a moth-proof storage room, and on the 
second a great vat containing two improved mangles, the only carpet mangles in existence, 
invented by one of the firm. 




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THE GLOBE OIL COMPANY. 



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C H. Gardner, President and Treasurer ; O. E. Kelsey, Vice-President ; E. M. Smith, 
Secretary — Manufacturers of Diamond Black Leather Oil, French Valve Cyl- 
inder, Extra Globe and Eureka Engine Oils— Offices 66, 67 and 69 Grand Arcade 
Building, No. 101 St. Clair St. 

Messrs. Wales, Gardner & Co. established 
_ the Globe oil works in 1880, the present com- 

pany succeeding in February, 1884, incorpor- 
ating under the laws of Ohio. The officers 
are named above. The plant occupies ten 
k acres of land on the C. & P. railroad, between 
jl| Bessemer and Kinsman streets, the works 
■ alone requiring three acres of floor space, the 
principal building being 74 x 164 feet, with 
several smaller structures near at hand. A 
force of ten men is employed, and the outfit 
for manufacturing their oils is both complete 
and expensive. Careful attention is given to 
the production of the very best leather oils and lubricants, and their well-known brands 
are now in constant demand where once they have been used. Their " Diamond Black" 
leather oil has achieved an extraordinary success, and is now standing at the head as an 
oil for all kinds of leather. Their trade extends throughout all the States. The officers 
of the company are all Clevelanders and directly interested in the progress and prosperity 
of the city, and are young men of push. 




ROSEWATER BROS., 

Proprietors of the Rosen wasser Laboratory — Manufacturers of Druggists' and Grocers' 
Specialties — Nos. 111 and 113 Water St. 

This well-known and enterprising firm has, within a very short time, achieved a national 
reputation. Beginning in a very small way a few years ago, they have succeeded in plac- 
ing their goods in almost every home within the territory of the United States, making the 
name of their justly celebrated "O K " preparations a household word everywhere. The 
unparalleled success of the now famous 



TRADE 



preparations is due mainly to the high and uniform standard of quality maintained in 
their composition, as well as to the ingenious methods in which they have been advertised. 

The extensive laboratory in which the goods are manufactured is under the immediate 
and direct supervision of Mr. Nathan Rosewater, formerly in charge of one of the largest 
laboratories in the country, also head chemist of the New York hospital. Mr. Rosewater 
is a chemist whose rank in the profession is among the first, and whose experience in the 
specialties to which he here devotes his time places him second to none in this country or 
elsewhere. Strongly original, he is eminently practical, developing through these qualities 
the foundation for the extensive growth of the institution. 

In connection with the laboratory they have a fully equipped printing office, run by 
steam power, in which all their beautiful colored labels and show cards are printed. This 
department, as also that of advertising, is in charge of Mr. Frank Rosewater, a practical 
printer and a newspaper man well versed in advertising methods. The general manage- 
ment of the business is under the direction of Mr. Joseph Rosewater, a man of long and 
successful business experience. 

Among the numerous preparations they make we find the O K baking powder, so widely 
known ; O K flavoring extracts, a full line ; O K writing ink, all colors ; O K grip, a muci- 
lage, cement and glue; O K white rose perfume; O K sewing machine oil; O K insect 
powder; O K sarsaparilla ; O K condition powders; I Cure U liver and kidney cure; 
Deville's bitters; O K bluing ; O K cough syrup, and O K glycerine. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



GREIF BROS., 



Manufacturers of Barrels and Coopers' Stock — Factory, Willey St.; Warehouse*, 
Monroe St.; Office, No. 254 Willey St. 




This monster cooperage house was established in 1877 by Vanderwyst & Greif, and^has- 
proved a most successful business venture. In 1882 Mr. Vanderwyst retired, the firm then 
becoming Greif Bros. — William and Charles O. Greif. The works are the largest of the 
kind east of St. Louis and west of New York, equipped with a large and valuable com- 
plement of improved machinery, and have a capacity of 3000 slack barrels per day. The 
work turned out is of the best quality, and is in constantly increasing demand among 
millers, fruit packers and others, and besides a large local trade the firm ship extensively 
to Northern Ohio, Western New York and Pennsylvania points. Their source of timber 
supply and mills are near Chatham, Ontario. The factory on Willey street, two stories 
in height, covers ground 425 feet square, and employs a large force. The warehouse on 
Monroe street is 32 x 40 x 120 feet, and of great storage capacity, the firm dealing largely 
in coopers' stock of all kinds. 

Some idea of the business transacted by the firm may be drawn from the fact that their 
sales average $25,000 per month in value and that they require here in Cleveland eight 
buildings for shops and storage. 



HOWE & WAGNER, 

Produce Commission Merchants — No. 17 Huron St. 

The firm of Howe & Wagner, established April 15 last, already gives 
unquestionable evidences of capacity, tact and assured success. With 
a cash capital of $8,000 and possession of an eligibly located three- 
story brick business house, 22x80 feet, their material advantages are 
unsurpassed, while the experience and industry of both members prom- 
ise most excellent results. 

The firm handle every description of country produce on commission, 
drawing on the vast productive territory comprising the States of Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan for supplies, and shipping to all princi- 
pal markets as far as New York. Making liberal advances to consignees, 
and with quick returns at best market prices, they are making themselves 
popular with producers and shippers as well as with the trade. 

In addition to the commission business in domestic produce the firm 
are extensive wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic fruits in season — oranges, lemons, 
bananas, apples, peaches, etc. 

Both members of the firm are Americans by birth. Mr. Howe has been connected with 
the commission business for nearly twenty years. Mr. Wagner was, previous to his pres- 
ent venture, with Gabel & Frisby, coffee and spice dealers, for a year and a half. 




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HUGHES BROS., 



Builders of Hughes Bros.' Improved Steam Pump, Ice Machines and Hydraulic Presses 
— Nos. 41, 43 and 45 Viaduct. 




Messrs. Robert and W. H. Hughes are energetic and skillful business men and practical 
mechanics, who came to Cleveland from London, Canada, in 1880, and established them-. 
selves in business as general machinists at No. 10 Columbus street, removing later to the 
imposing six-story manufacturing building Nos. 41 to 45 Viaduct, where they occupy one 
floor 75 x 200 feet, fitted up with special reference to their requirements, and containing 
a superb equipment of powerful and ingenious'machinery, adapted to the construction of 
their own specialties — Hughes' improved patent steam pump, ice machines, hydraulic 
presses, etc. Fifty operatives, including skilled workmen, laborers and apprentices, are 
employed, and the output for 1886 was valued at $200,000, those figures being vastly 
exceeded the present year, the demand for their machinery augmenting at a rapid 
rate throughout this country, while heavy shipments are constantly made to the oil 
fields of Russia, where the Hughes pump (illustrated above) is regarded with great favor 
because of its simplicity, strength and wonderful effectiveness. 

Mr. R. Hughes, the senior member, is a thorough mechanic and engineer, ingenious 
and practical, whose life from boyhood up has been passed in the machine shop. The 
firm is a successful and flourishing one, and will be heard of in the front rank of American 
manufacturers. 
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THE INDUSTRIES OE CLEVELAND. 



R. T. HOLDEN, 



Dealer in Paints, Oils, Colors, Varnishes, Brushes, etc.— No. 53 Frankfort St. 

Cleveland is the center of an immense trade 
in paints and painters' supplies, and several 
of the most extensive manufacturing and 
wholesale jobbing houses in the country are 
located here. Prominent among the latter class 
is the well-known concern of Mr. R. T. Holden, 
No. 53 Frankfort street, which carries at all 
seasons an immense stock of paints, oils, 
colors, varnishes, brushes, putty, materials 
and painters' supplies of every description, 
making a specialty of John W. Measures & 
Sons' celebrated colors, unrivaled for bril- 
liancv, 




permanency and other desirable quali- 



ties. 

Mr. 
merly 



Q/R.T.HOLDEN.CLEV.O& 



Holden, a native of Cleveland, was for- 
engaged on an extensive scale in the 
manufacture of sewing machine woodwork, 
but disposed of his plant and goodwill to Mr. 
Theodor Kundtz (elsewhere referred to in 
these pages). Mr. Holden occupies the ground floor and basement at the above location, 
20 x 100 feet, and does a considerable retail business locally, besides a vast wholesale trade 
extending to all parts of this and adjoining States. He is a prominent and popular citi- 
zen and a pleasant gentleman, and served in Co. "A," 8th U. S. infantry, from 1861 until 
1867, serving in the Army of the Potomac during the rebellion, and has represented the 
Sixteenth and Twentieth wards in the Common Council. 



E. V. JEWELL, 

Merchandise Broker — Rooms 8 and 9, No. 130 Water St. 

Mr. E. V. Jewell stands deservedly high among Cleveland business men as a clear- 
headed, alert and progressive merchant and citizen, and his rooms present a busy scene 
during business hours all the year round, presenting a vast array of samples of all goods 
•usually handled by merchandise brokers of the first class. 

pMr. Jewell came hither from New York in 1873 an d established himself, first in the 
Atwater building, removing in 1876 to No. 222 Bank street and in 1881 to his present 
location, where he] possesses every conceivable facility for the prompt and satisfactory 
transaction of business on a large scale, his annual sales averaging about $4,000,000, and 
his connections permeating every corner of this and all other commercial countries repre- 
senting numerous heavy importers of teas, coffees, etc., and having correspondents in all 
leading American and foreign markets. He is ably assisted by his nephew and partner, 
Mr. E. M. Jewell, also a New Yorker, who joined the house here in 1877. 



CLEVELAND NITROUS OXIDE WORKS. 

G. W. Downer, G. Clarke, Proprietors — Manufacturers of Nitrous Oxide Liquid Gas — 

No. 106 Canal St. 

All dentists and most of their patrons are acquainted with the properties of nitrous oxide 
gas, the wonderful anaesthetic that has contributed so much of late years to relieve suffer- 
ing and assist the profession in the performance of difficult and delicate operations while 
avoiding the danger that attends the employment of chloroform and ether. There are in 
the United States but three establishments devoted to the manufacture of this gas, and but 
one in the West — that of Messrs. Downer & Clarke, known as the Cleveland nitrous oxide 
works, occupying the first floor at No. 106 Canal street, and established in April, 1884. 
The machinery equipment, specially designed and constructed for the purpose, embraces 
all late improvements and is unsurpassed for efficiency and completeness, the stills, retorts, 
pressure machines, etc., being of the latest and most perfect description. The annual 
output averages 500,000 gallons, and the gas is of the best and most reliable quality, in 
demand by the dental profession all over the United States. It is prepared in liquid form, 
put up in iron cylinders under pressure, and shipped in quantities of 100 to 500 gallons 




This brewery was originally built and operated by Fred fHaltnorth, Messrs. Isaac Leisv 
and brothers purchasing in 1873, and Mr. Isaac Leisy becoming sole proprietor in 1880. 
Many and valuable improvements have been made— the entire plant reconstructed in fact 
—and at present it ranks among the finest and most complete in the country, the principal 
buildings being of brick 165 x 200 feet, and comprising brew-house, malt-house, store- 
house boiler and engine-house and house for ice machine. The equipment is first-class ; 
70 to 75 men are employed, and the capacity is 52,000 barrels, of an average value of $300,000 
per annum The leading specialty is a strictly pure premium Budweiser beer— a great 
favorite at home and abroad, largely sold by the local trade and throughout Northern Ohio 
as well as at Pittsburgh, Salem, Alliance, Conneaut, Ashtabula, Painesville, etc., at each 
ot which points wholesale agencies are maintained. Forty-two horses and eighteen wag- 
ons are required by the city trade alone, and for their accommodation extensive barns and 
stables are provided. All work connected with the brewery is done on the premises, 
and blacksmith and cooper-shops form a portion of the plant. 

Mr. Leisy is of German birth, and came here away back in the fifties. 

HART & CO., 

Jobbers in Millinery— Nos. 95 and 97 Bank St. 

t^ The ^ mill i ery j° bb u in S trade has no more reputable and few more extensive representa- 
I \ V S ? §rea , t t° USe ° f ? art ? C °" Nos - 9 5 and 97 Bank street, established in 1881 
to take the place of Morgan, Root & Co.'s millinery department, and developed by the 
present firm into magnificent proportions. 7 

H^ S f rS *-n Hart & C °a ° CC n Py f ° ul - com modious floors, 44x120 feet, and exhibit superb 
lines ; of millinery goods m all grades,from the richest Parisian novelties and importations from 
™V ^I 1 ^ f London, to the most unpretentious American productions, to all of 

^ nff 7t T n ^ tradG 18 invited With the France that the best possible terms 
are offered to buyers m large or small lots. 

The members of the firm are Messrs. E. L. and F. W. Hart and A. Van Tuyl, all of 
whom were with Morgan, Root & Co. for various periods-the first twenty-one, the second 
leven, and the third fifteen years. Their New York office is at No. 96 Spring street 



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RUBBER PAINT COMPANY. 



E. B. Wight, President; N. C. Brewer, Secretary and General Manager — Manufac- 
turers of Rubber Paint — Nos. 57 to 61 James St. 




It is claimed that the paints of the above-named company are the " Best in the World," 
and excellent proofs of that claim are presented in the form of testimonials from experi- 
enced practical painters, as well as from property owners, who have used these paints for 
the past eighteen years, many buildings being in good condition which were painted from 
seven to ten years ago. The incorporation of India rubber with the various pigments appears 
to be the secret of the fine gloss, elasticity, and great durability of these paints which are 
furnished to order in colors and quantities to suit, and are guaranteed to give satisfaction in 
all essentials, such as durability, brilliancy, ease of manipulation and comparative cheapness 
The Rubber Paint Company was organized in 1873, with a capital of $500,000, and now has 
factories in four leading cities, as follows : Chicago, six stories, 42 x 112 feet ; New York, 
six stories, 60x85 feet ; Cleveland, four stories, 60 x 120 feet; St. Louis, a large concern, di- 
mensions not stated. All are fitted up with special machinery and appliances, and one 
hundred and fifty men are employed in all. The trade of the house extends all over the 
world, and is very heavy in South America and Australia,, as well as in all the States, Can- 
ada, Mexico and the West Indies. It is the Pioneer Rubber Paint Company, and in point 
of reputation and patronage has no rival. The advantages of a strictly pure rubber paint 
are so many and obvious as to require no enumeration, but may be summed up in one sen- 
tence : " Best in the World," especially for work that is exposed to the elements. Any 
one contemplating painting or building should send for their book,, which contains colored 
plates of house elevations and other valuable information. 



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W. H. CAINE, 



-Proprietor Ohio Blue Stone Quarries — Manufacturer of and Dealer in Sawed Flagging, 
Door Sills, Steps and Landings, Window Caps and Sills, Water Tables, Ashlar, 
Curb and Cross Walks — Block Stone, Footing and Perch Stone — No. 2836 Broad- 
way. 

A marked point 
of superiority pos- 
sessed by the Ohio 
blue stone from Mr. 
Caine's quarries is 
that it does not spot 
or scale on exposure 
as do other grades 
of similar stone. Mr. 
C. has been quarry- 
ing and working 
this splendid stone 
for the past twenty- 
two years, and has 
yet to hear the first 
complaint on this 
score. He opened 
his first quarry — 
about half a mile 
from his present 
works — i n 1865. 
The old quarry is 
still worked to some 

extent, but for reasons of economy and convenience the new quarry on Broadway, opened 
in 1883, is made the principal scene of operations. Both together comprise about five 
acres, and, because of the quality of product and accessibility, are among the most valu- 
able of the kind in the State. The works are fitted up with a steam boiler and engine 
and six gangs of snws, all under shelter of a substantial wooden building, and a force of 
some thirty men are employed in the various operations of quarrying and preparing stone 
for use. The annual output averages about 100,000 feet of finished work and 3000 perches 
of building stone, valued in all at over $20,000. The specialties embrace the best grades 
of Ohio blue stone flagging and building stone, window and door sills and caps, steps, land- 
ings, water tables, ashlar, curb and cross walks, etc. 




TRAVELERS' INFORMATION BUREAU. 

A- J. Jackson & Co. — Railroad and Steamship Ticket'Agency — Drafts, Money Orders, 
Letters of Credit, etc., on All* Parts of the World— No. 224 Bank St. 

In a country like ours, which i$ more than any other a highway of nations, and particu- 
larly at great railroad and navigation centers like Cleveland, there is a constant demand 
on the part of travelers and tourists for reliable information concerning transportation 
routes, tickets, exchange, etc., which few ordinary ticket agents are prepared to furnish. 
It was with the object of meeting this growing want that Messrs. T. F. Newman, A. J. 
Jackson and J. Folkman established at No. 224 Bank street the Travelers' Information 
Bureau, where the stranger from any portion of Europe or America may obtain such 
instructions on the best and cheapest means of reaching his destination and other assist- 
ance as he may require, promptly, intelligently, and without risk of being victimized. The 
firm also furnish railway and lake and ocean steamship tickets at lowest legitimate rates to 
any portion of this country or Europe, issue drafts, money orders and letters of credit on 
European monetary centers, and, in short, make themselves generally useful on reasonable 
terms to the classes mentioned. Theirs is also the city office for the sale of passage tickets 
via the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's palatial steamers, a fact which 
tourists and others will do well to bear in mind. 

Messrs. Newman, Jackson and Folkman have resided in this city for a number of years, 
have had long experience, and are polite and obliging gentlemen. 



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A. TEACHOUT & CO. 




^-2448.46 MICHIGAN ST CL EVE LAN Q.O. 

50 x no feet which will be occupied in time for the 



Dealers in Sash, Doors, Blinds, Window Glass, etc. — Nos. 42, 44 and 46 Michigan St.. 

One of the most prominent and 
largest houses in this city, con- 
nected with the building trades, is 
the firm of A. Teachout & Co., 
wholesale dealers in doors, sash, 
blinds and window glass, whose 
office and salesroom are located at 
Nos. 42, 44 and 46 Michigan street. 
This house, founded by A. Teachout 
and his son — A. R. Teachout — in 
1873, nas been very successful, 
and, to accommodate their con- 
stantly increasing retail trade in 
the city, in 1886 admitted Mr. C. 
E. Crawford to partnership. The 
premises, of which a view is here- 
with presented, comprise a hand- 
some four-story brick building, 50 x 
75 feet, fitted with a hydraulic ele- 
vator ; but the transactions of this 
firm have outgrown the facilities 
afforded by this edifice, and the 
firm are now erecting a new five- 
story structure — which will also 
be supplied with a hydraulic ele- 
vator — adjoining the one now in 
use, 50 x no ieet wnicn win De occupiea in time ior the business of the ensuing season, 
the outlook for which is very flattering and indicative of a vast increase of sales. As will- 
be perceived from the dimensions of 
the new building, this will more 
than double their facilities for the 
transaction of their business. 

Messrs. Teachout & Co. carry an 
immense stock of the materials 
named, of the best make and styles, 
and have a heavy regular patronage 
from dealers at home and all over 
Eastern and Northern Ohio and 
Western Pennsylvania, and extend- 
ing, by means of their branch house 
at Columbus, Ohio, into and through- 
out Kentucky and West Virginia. 
This branch house is also known 
under the firm name of A. Teachout 
& Co., and is composed of Messrs. 
A. and A. R. Teachout. 

A special feature of this business 
is the glazing department, where 
window sash are primed and glazed 

and packed ready for shipment to any part of the country. 

force of employes are constantly engaged. To supply this branch of their business re- 
quires large quantities of glass, and this renders them one of the largest buyers of window 
glass in the city. This branch of their business is growing proportionately to their other 
transactions. 

Successful in making it a point to always render satisfaction by the superior quality of 
their goods, and always giving their customers the benefit of the lowest market prices, the 
circle of the trade of this firm is constantly increasing, and A. Teachout & Co. have de- 
servedly acquired the reputation of being one of the most liberal and prosperous houses 
in the city. The present style of the firm was adopted in 1877, all the members of 
which are residents of Cleveland. 




27&29 WEST SPRING ST. 
COLUMBUS. 0. 

In this department a large 



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EXCELSIOR CRACKER WORKS, 

Nos. 861 and 863 Willson Ave. 

The manufacture of bread in all its varieties is a wide-spread industry, scattered through- 
out every section of the country. In this city the Excelsior Cracker Works stand promi- 
nent both for the extent and completeness of their business. The specialties manufactured 
are crackers, cake, and bread of a superior quality. The buildings occupied in the cracker 
department are 60 x 120 feet, occupying three floors. The bread and cake bakery occu- 
pies. a building 70 x 50 feet. All the necessary and improved machinery consistent with 
thorough and rapid work is here employed. The number of bakers, second hands, and 
other help employed is sixty, who are given steady employment. The principal trade is 
located in the city, where the demand for their goods is sufficient to the full capacity of 
the works. 

Mr. G. C. Julier, the proprietor, is a gentleman of large experience, a practical and 
thorough baker, who has given years of attention to this particular branch of trade, and 
not only has he succeeded in securing a leading trade position in this city, but he has also 
built up a business which is bound to prosper, as customers recognize the superior quality 
of his goods, and realize the promptness and fair dealing which is his chief characteristic. 

The " Excelsior " has just opened an elegantly-appointed, attractive, and magnificently 
stocked retail department in the Cyclorama building, Erie street and Euclid avenue, where 
full lines of their goods will be kept at all times. 



PROSPECT HOUSE. 



Col. R. A. Gillette, Proprietor — Corner Ontario and Prospect Sts. 

The Prospect is one of the most comfortable, snug and tidy hotels in Ohio, located 
conveniently to the business center, offering neat, clean and rest-inviting rooms and a 
luxurious table, and all the attractions of a first-class hotel with none of the fuss, ceremony 
and extortion so often features of those pretentious caravansaries. Col. R. A. Gillette, the 
proprietor, formerly occupied the same relation to the famous old Weddell House, and is 
one of the best-known and most popular hosts in the country. The building itself is a 
handsome one of four stories, the ground floor being occupied by stores. There are ample 
accommodations for 150 guests, with the best of service, and those who once stop at the 
Prospect will do so again. 

Col. Gillette has conducted the house during the past six years. He is a typical landlord 
and an entertaining companion. For many years he was a prominent commission merchant 
in produce, taking up hotel-keeping later. He was born in Trumbull county, and lived in 
Portage, Ohio, of which place he was postmaster for twelve years, having previously served 
in the State Senate, and has twice held commissions with the rank of colonel. 



HUTSON COAL COMPANY. 



H. D. Hutson, President; E. C. Burke, Vice-President; H. D. Marble; Secretary 
and Treasurer — Miners arid Shippers of Palmyra Coal — Office, Room 67 Wilshire 
Building. 

A favorite fuel in this market, and claimed to be the best in Ohio for general purposes, 
is the celebrated "Palmyra" coal, mined near the town of that name in Portage county. 
The Hutson Coal Company is a conspicuous and prosperous operator in this superior grade 
of coal, with principal office at room 67 Wilshire building, Nos. 209 and 211 Superior 
street. This company, the officers of which are named above, was incorporated in 1884 
with paid-up capital stock to the amount of $25,000, owns a large body of valuable coal 
land, employs a fine equipment of improved machinery and sixty men, and puts on the 
market about 25,000 tons of choice fuel per annum, nearly all of which is disposed of 
readily in Northern Ohio towns, giving entire satisfaction to consumers. 

President Hutson is an old and much respected resident of Deerfield, Portage county. 
Vice-President Burke was born, reared, and still resides in Cleveland. Secretary and 
Treasurer Marble, who is also general manager, is a native of Cleveland, and was formerly 
connected with the Union Rolling Mill Company and with the South Cleveland Provision 
Company. He is a thorough business man, wide-awake and liberal. 



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GARRY IRON ROOFING CO., 

Manufacturers of Iron Roofing, Siding, Ceiling, Shingles, Ridge Caps, Doors, Shutters, 
Roofing Cement and Paint, etc. — No. 152 Merwin St. 




Of all the materials necessity or convenience has ever suggested for roofing purposes, 
and more especially for large and otherwise unprotected business houses, ware-houses, fac- 
tories, mills, etc., none have ever given the same satisfaction in point of utility, simplic- 
ity, durability and convenience that is justly claimed for sheet iron as prepared by modern 
improved processes. The greatest iron roofing works in the world are those of the Garry 
Iron Roofing Company, office No. 152 Merwin street, this city, who have made and shipped 
to consumers scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf, over 
15,000,000 squares (1,500,000,000 square feet) of their superb roofing in the past sixteen 
years, and the demand continues to increase at such a rate as to compel the multiplication 
of facilities to meet it. The industry was originally founded in 1871, by Needham & 
Garry, afterward changed to Needham, Garry & Powers, then to Powers & Needham, and 
finally to the present style, which firm has a cash capital of $50,000. The factory, for- 
merly on Columbus street, was removed in 188 1 to the premises now occupied — an immense 
two-story brick building, 90 x 180 feet square. A fine complement of machinery and fif- 
teen men are employed, and the output for the past year was valued at $100,000. 

Our illustration shows the manner of applying the roofing. " A " presents the seam 
complete; "B," riveting on the cap; "C," cap partly on; "D," putting down cleat or 
anchor ; " E," forming up the sides with roofing tongs. 

Besides roofing, the company manufacture full lines of plain and corrugated siding, 
ceiling, metal shingles, ridge-caps, doors, shutters, roofers' tools, roofing cement, roofing 
paint, etc. Persons interested should write for illustrated circular. 



W. L. HURLBUT, 

Dealer in Anthracite and Bituminous Coal — Room 1 National Bank Building. 

Mr. W. L. Hurlbut is an old and popular Clevelander, and previous to embarking in 
his present venture, in 1886, was a well-known and successful lumber merchant. 

Mr. H. deals in all grades of hard and soft coal, for manufacturing and domestic pur- 
poses. He is a pleasant, affable and liberal gentleman, upright and honorable in his 
dealings, and worthy of the prosperity that has attended him in his new field. 



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THE OHIO SEWER PIPE CO. 

F. H. Colman, President ; Percy C. Hamilton, Secretary and Treasurer — Manufac- 
turers of Vitrified Salt-Glazed Sewer and Water Pipe — Office, Wilshire Building, 
Nos. 209 and 211 Superior St. 

Owing to its indestructibility from the action of acids and dampness, and its compara- 
tive cheapness, vitrified salt-glazed sewer pipe made of high-grade Ohio fire clay is rapidly 
superseding iron for all drainage and fluid-conducting purposes, underground, save where 
a high pressure is maintained, as in the case of water-works pipes. As a consequence, the 
manufacture of this kind of pipe has grown into a great industry, the demand multiply- 
ing every year and taxing the facilities of producers to the utmost. 

One of the most complete plants of the kind in the State is that of the Ohio Sewer Pipe 
•Company, located on the line of the P., M. & C. and N. Y., P. & O. railroads, in Colum- 
biana county, at a point where is found an inexhaustible supply of the best obtainable fire 
clay. The company was incorporated the present year and commenced operations with a 
capital stock of $96,000. The officers are F. H. Colman, president; Percy C. Hamilton, 
secretary and treasurer; general office, Wilshire building, Nos. 209 and 211 Superior street, 
Cleveland, where all required information, price lists, etc., may be obtained. A working force 
of seventy-five men is employed ; the facilities are all that could be desired, and the capacity 
is 2,500 car loads per annum of Ohio standard pipe, which is shipped to all parts of this 
continent. 



WILLIAM E. GATES, 



dreneral Agent of the Hammond Type- Writer Co. — Dealer in Copying and Duplicating 
Machines — No. 158 Public Square. 




Mr. Gates, a native of Georgia, came to Cleveland last March, and established himself 
as general agent for the introduction into Northern Ohio of the wonderful Hammond 
Type-Writer, illustrated in the above cut. This machine on the score of merit alone 
received the only gold medal awarded this class of exhibits at the New Orleans Cotton 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



Centennial Exposition, has received other special medals, and is enthusiastically indorsed 
by leading railway and insurance companies, stenographers, manufacturers, newspapers 
and the professional and business public generally, wherever introduced. 

The usefulness of a type-writer in all branches of business was demonstrated long ago, 
but the Hammond has taken for itself the position of the type-writer, of that one which 
always gives perfect work, both as to alignment and impression, whose range of work, ease 
of operation and durability are greater than those of any other type-writer. The Hammond 
is peculiar in that it is so largely mechanical in its action, a quality that can hardly be too 
marked, and which affects the speed of the instrument directly. Many of its operators 
take dictation directly upon the machine, and without the use of shorthand. We have 
not the space for such a description of the Hammond as it might receive, but those 
interested will be furnished with the desired information at the office, 158 Public Square. 

Mr. Gates further makes 
a specialty of machines 
for copying and dupli- 
cating, in the lead among 
which is the Thomson 
rapid copying and dupli- 
cating machine, which is- 
designed to, and does, re- 
produce type-writing and 
manuscript with a clear- 
ness and rapidity sur- 
passing all other devices. 
An original is made with- 
out any of the paraphernalia of other devices, by the type-writer, or by writing with a lead 
pencil ; by placing it on the top roller, face downward, turning the crank and feeding in. 
the sheets, the results are seen in thirty to seventy-five duplicates, and by the preparation 
of other originals at the same time, in from 150 to 200 copies. The invention is simplicity 
itself, and requires no special training to produce these results. The only supplies 
needed are tissue paper for originals, a duplicating ribbon, and carbon manifold sheets. 
The use of the ribbon alone gives fifteen copies on tissue paper. 



NEW JOHNSON HOUSE. 

S. E. West, Proprietor; H. B. West, Manager — Nos. 131 and 133 Superior St. 

The famous Johnson House has for many years been a prominent feature of Cleveland,, 
having been first opened by the Mr. Johnson from whom its name was derived as long ago 
as 1850, thirty-seven years. The building is four and a half stories in height, 75 feet 
front, 170 feet deep, contains — besides parlors, sitting and dining rooms, halls, office, 
kitchen, etc. — seventy-five clean, comfortable and pleasant guest chambers, and can 
accommodate 300 people per day at its well-kept and abundantly supplied tables. Every- 
thing is the best the market affords, the cookery and service unexceptionable, while 
the rates are remarkable for moderation — $1.50 to $2.00 per day, dependent upon location 
of room. 

Mr. S. E. West, the genial proprietor, is a noted boniface.. Twenty-one years ago he 
' kept the Put-in-Bay summer resort ; in 1874 he was mine host of the Lake House, and in 
1876 of the West House, both at Sandusky, the Lake House proving too small for his- 
growing patronage. In 1881 he came to Cleveland, soon thereafter taking charge of the 
Johnson. In 1885 the house was renovated, repaired, repainted and repapered, remodeled,, 
refitted and refurnished throughout, and under the amplified appellation of the New 
Johnson House is enjoying a degree of popularity and prosperity never hitherto known 
in its history. 

Mr. West is a native of Cuyahoga county and widely and favorably known in city and 
country. He gives his entire attention to the comfort and pleasure of his guests, employs 
none but polite and attentive servants, and, in short, " knows how to keep a hotel," and 
does it. 




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CLEVELAND MANTEL AND GRATE CO. 

W. O. Williams, Proprietor — Manufacturers of Mantels, Dressers, Table Tops,, 
Wainscoting, Grates, etc. — Cor. Superior St. and Sterling Ave. 




One of the most attractive of interior decorations for parlor or sitting-room is an artistic 
fireplace and mantel, and this class of work has of late years received much attention from 
those whose business it is to adorn and beautify our homes. Every available material — ■ 
marble, cast-iron, wood, papier-mache, slate, etc. — has been .tried in turn, and it has been 
found that no other gives as good general satisfaction in point of durability, beauty and 
economy as the last named — slate — which can be worked in any desired shape or design 
with less trouble and at less expense than -marble, is more tractable and desirable than 
iron, and gives results in ornamentation equal to either. As compared with wood and 
other materials the advantages are all with slate. 

The Cleveland Mantel and Grate Company is the only house in Ohio that manufactures 
slate mantels, milling it upon the premises, taking the slate direct from the quarries, and 
is doing a flourishing business, though established but little more than two years. The 
works at Superior street and Sterling avenue are 30 x 150 feet, employ ten men and a fine 
complement of sawing and finishing machinery, and do a great deal of first-class work to- 
order for shipment to various points in Ohio, Michigan and New York. Besides mantels- 
— of which a stock in standard designs is kept on hand — the company also make from the. 
same material a great variety of table and washstand tops, plumbers' slabs, etc., which 
are coming into general demand as being for most purposes better than marble. The 
slate used here is received iri blocks from the Vermont and Pennsylvania quarries, sawed, 
sculptured and finished to order on the premises. 

The grates handled by the company in connection with their mantel trade are made 



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expressly for them of iron and brass, are in beautiful and novel designs, and sell rapidly. 

Mr. W. O. Williams, the proprietor, was bred in the slate regions, has had large and 
varied experience, and is a master of his vocation. He is now building, and will have 
ready for occupancy early the coming year, a commodious wareroom adjoining the works, 
where a full line of choice samples will be placed on exhibition. 



THE CLEVELAND VARNISH CO. 

W. F. Roeder, President ; E. Van Camp, Vice-President ; W. H. Hostetter, Secre- 
tary; C. H. Tylee, Treasurer — Manufacturers of Fine Cabinet, Coach and Railway 
Varnishes — No. 14 Rockland Ave. 

Consumers of varnish are 
thoroughly well aware that 
the market is, and for years 
has been, glutted with adul- 
terated and degenerated 
goods, and that the only pro- 
tection available is found in 
an expert knowledge of every 
trick of the trade on the one 
hand, or in buying only those 
varnishes having an estab- 
lished reputation, based upon 
the personal and business 
character of the manufactur- 
ers, and verified by practical 
experience. Comparatively 
few men can accurately judge 
of the merits of any particu- 
lar varnish upon cursory in- 
spection, and consequently 
the great body of buyers are 
compelled to depend upon 
brand and price until experi- 
ence has ripened their judg- 
ment, by which time they 
have usually paid a good 
price for their schooling. 

A conspicuous and famous 
house in this important 
branch of manufacturing is 
the Cleveland Varnish Com- 
pany, established in 1880 — a 
house that, commencing op- 
erations with ample capital, 
was enabled from the first to 
enlist the very highest skill 
and ingenuity, technical and practical, and to offer the trade superior grades of choice 
goods at prices as low as any square-dealing concern can afford. The office of the com- 
pany is at No. 14 Rockland avenue. The works cover an acre of ground, and consist of 
several large brick buildings equipped in the best manner for the purpose to which they 
are devoted. Eighteen men are employed, the latest improved processes are in use, and 
the output, valued at several hundred thousand dollars annually, is eagerly taken by the 
trade East, West and South. The specialties — fine cabinet, coach and railroad varnishes 
— are universal favorites wherever known, and the demand increases' very fast, business 
for the past twelve months showing unprecedented growth, while the outlook for 1888 
is all that could be desired, as their facilities will probably be taxed to their utmost 
capacity. The company has storage room for considerably more than 200,000 gallons, and 
is prepared to supply uniformly well matured varnishes. 




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J. J. PITTS & CO., 



Produce Commission Merchants and Jobbers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits — No. 62 

Prospect St. 

This prosperous house, composed of Messrs. J. J. Pitts and Victor A. Rehark, was or- 
ganized in 1885 as the successor to Connor & Pitts, the latter firm founded in 1876 as Connor, 
May & Pitts, and changed to Connor & Pitts in 1878. Mr. Pitts is one of Cleveland's old 
and reputable commission merchants, well known and popular wherever the influence of 
the city has penetrated. He was born in Prussia in 1842, came to Lorain county, Ohio, 
four years later, and to Cleveland in 1858, going subsequently to California. After seeing 
a good deal of the world, he returned in 1867, and obtained employment with A. J. Wen- 
ham & Son, wholesale grocers, as traveling salesman, remaining with them nine years, 
when he embarked in the commission business, which he has pursued ever since. Mr. 
Victor A. Rehark first saw the light here in Cleveland, November 6, 1854, was educated 
in the public schools, and in 1872 became bookkeeper for S. M. Ellinwood & Co., whole- 
sale produce commission merchants, where he remained four years, when that firm retired 
and was succeeded by Shannon & Rehark. The latter firm was dissolved in 1878, when 
Mr. Rehark became bookkeeper for Connor & Pitts, becoming Mr. Pitts' partner in 1885, 
on the establishment of the present house, which occupies a spacious two-story brick 
building, with basement, at No. 62 Prospect street, and does a flourishing commission 
business in produce and fruits — potatoes, onions, eggs, butter, poultry, apples, berries and 
domestic and foreign fruits generally — their annual sales averaging $200,000, and their 
trade covering Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and various Western and Southern states. The 
house is a reliable, responsible and liberal one. 



LOWMAN & CO., 



Manufacturers of Fine Family Carriages — Corner South Water and Long Sts. 

Jacob Lowman was the founder of this house, as far back as 1832, when he established 
himself in a small way on Frankfort street. In i860 a Mr. Warden became a partner. In 
1872 the style was changed to Jacob Lowman & Son, and in 1884 t° Lowman & Co., as at 
present. The works occupy two buildings — one of four stories, 40 x 80 feet, the other of 
five stories, 35 x 80 feet. Thirty men are employed in the various departments — wood- 
working, blacksmithing, finishing, painting, etc., and a capacity of $50,000 worth of ve- 
hicles per annum are built and sold in Cleveland and throughout Northern Ohio. The 
great specialty is first-class fine work, nothing being permitted to leave the factory that 
does not come up to the highest standard as regards materials, design, workmanship and 
finish. Many fine coaches are also made to order for customers at Detroit, Marquette, 
Chicago and other distant points, where the reputation of the house is almost as well-known 1 
and appreciated as at home. The products of this firm embrace all popular styles of 
hand-made coaches, landaus, coupes, phaetons, side-bar and other varieties of buggies and 
road wagons, sleighs and cutters. 

The firm is composed of Messrs. C. E. Lowman and C. F. Beutle, both practical car- 
riage-makers. Mr. Lowman is a son of the founder. Mr. Beutle, who came into the firm 
in 1884, had for a long time previously been employed as foreman. 



GARDNER & CLARK, 



Commission Merchants and Proprietors of Union Elevator — Office, No. 107 Merwin St. 

This firm, originally Gardner, Clark & Co., founded in 1850, is the oldest in point of" 
continuous existence among the commission houses of Cleveland. The first change was 
made in 1861, when the style became Gardner & Clark, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, now 
president of the Standard Oil Co., being then a partner. In 1862 the Union elevator was 
built, and the firm, having in the meantime admitted Mr. J. W. Gibbons, removed from 
River street and took possession. It goes without saying that the move was a wise and 
profitable one, which they have never had cause to regret. The Union, the only grain elevator 
of consequence on the Cayahoga, occupies with its appurtenances two acres of ground, 
fronting on both river and railroad. The elevator proper is 100 x 150 feet square by 150 
feet in height, and has a storage capacity of 250,000 bushels. In the adjacent yards are three 
powerful steam derricks for the transfer of building materials and other bulky and heavy 
objects from boat to cars and vice versa, and switches connect the premises with the various 



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railroads. The elevator building itself is strongly constructed throughout of stone and 
timber. A fine locomotive boiler and compact 50-horse-power engine, separated by a brick 
wall to prevent the spread of possible fire, furnish the power for operating all the machin- 
ery. Twenty-five men are employed, and the transactions average about $5,000,000 a 
year, grain from the West and from Canada being handled in large quantities, besides 
much other merchandise, and a steady stream of shipments made to all points East and 
South. 

The gentlemen composing the firm are all prominent citizens. Mr. George W. Gardner 
came here from Massachusetts when a child. He was mayor of Cleveland from 1885 to 
1887, and is connected with the National mills. Mr. M. B. Clark is of English birth, 
came to Cleveland in 1840, is president of the Cooperative Stove Co. and interested in the 
National mills. Mr. J. W. Gibbons is a native of Cleveland, served with distinction in 
the Union army, and is now lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth O. V. I. 



C. H. BURTON, 



Manufacturer of Burton's Patent Steam Pumps — Corner Main and Center Sts. 




There are a vast number of steam pumps before the public, some good, some bad, some 
indifferent, and those whose business requkes the employment of a device of this kind are 
just as likely to meet with disappointment on practical trial as not, unless they are capable 
of judging of the machine's merits for themselves or have the guarantee of a competent 
manufacturer. Mr. C. H. Burton, of Center and Main streets, Cleveland, is such an one — 
a thorough mechanic of long experience, who takes pride in his calling and the perfection 
to which he has brought the specialty to which he has devoted many years of study and 
experiment. Mr. B. was formerly for seven years a lake engineer, employed upon some 
of the largest and finest steamers that navigated the " unsalted seas " of the North. Later 
he retired therefrom and established himself in the Forest City as a manufacturer of 
steam pumps — a vocation in which he has achieved fame and moderate pecuniary reward. 
Beginning without capital and with only his own skill, industry and genius to depend 
upon, he has since 1870 built up a large and flourishing trade extending to all portions of 
Ohio and the lake ports. At this time he has a capital of $20,000 invested in his business, 
occupies a well-equipped foundry and machine-shop 60 x 60 feet, employs twelve skillful 
workmen, and turns out pumps to the value of $20,000 per annum. 

His great specialty, Burton's patent steam pump, of which our engraving gives an 
accurate idea, possesses many points of superiority which cannot but attract the notice of 
those in search of this class of" machinery — simplicity, effectiveness, strength, durability, 
excellent workmanship throughout, and comparative cheapness. 

Mr. B. is a native Clevelander, an unpretending, energetic and pleasant gentleman — 
one who deserves to and does succeed. 



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CLEVELAND GUN STORE. 



Thos. Larter, Proprietor; J. J. Corlett, Manager — Importers and Dealers in Breech 
and Muzzle-Loading Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Pocket Cutlery and Fishing Tackle 
of Every Description — No. 102 Superior St. 




This is Cleveland's principal depot for guns, ammunition, fishing-tackle and sporting 
-goods generally, and was established by the present proprietor in 1872. The store itself 
is a very handsome one, occupying the ground floor, 21 x 150 feet, of the beautiful five- 
story building No. 102 Superior street. The stock embraces a magnificent line of English, 
German and American breech and muzzle-loading single and double guns, improved 
breech-loading military, target and sporting rifles, revolvers, powder, shot, fixed ammuni- 
tion shells, fishing tackle, fine pocket cutlery and kindred goods, which are sold at reason- 
able prices under guarantee. The trade of the house is large and of the best character. 

Mr. Larter is of English birth, and proprietor of the adjoining restaurant. Mr. Corlett 
is a Clevelander. 



THE EAGLE CONSOLIDATED REFINING CO. 

C. D. Chamberlin, President; J. L. Apple, Vice-President; W. A. Smith, Secretary 
and Treasurer — Refiners of Petroleum and Its Products — Works at Cleveland and 
Lima, Ohio; Office, Benedict Building, Euclid Ave., Cleveland. 

The above named company is a new candidate for public favor and patronage, organized 
December 6, 1886, with a capital stock of $50,000, all paid in, and is already doing a large 
and flourishing business, "owning a complete plant of refining apparatus, receiving tanks, 
bleaching-house, water-boxes, cooper-shop, barrel-house, etc., occupying in all some thir- 
teen acres of land on the line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, one and a 
half miles west of Lima. They also own and operate extensive works in this city, and in 
connection with their refining business a pipe line running some twenty-two miles through 
the Ohio oil field, with pumping stations and storage tanks complete, and a line of tank 
-cars for supplying fuel oil or liquid fuel to manufacturers in all parts of the country at regu- 
lar market prices. 

The company's specialties embrace a full line of petroleum products, illuminating, lubri- 
cating and fuel oils, naptha, paraffine, etc., all of the highest grades, and supplied to the 
trade and consumers at the lowest figures. 

The Eagle Consolidated is an outgrowth of the Eagle Refining Company, which had ex- 
isted for some years previously. It is thoroughly independent and deserves generous encour- 
- agement at the hands of the public at large. The principal office is in the Benedict build- 
ing, Euclid avenue, with branches as follows: Sikes & Wands, San Francisco; Tennessee 
Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ; N. D. Clutter, Effingham, 111.; Southern Railway Supply 
Co., Richmond, Va. ; John C. Harris, Houghton, Mich. 



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THE STANDARD SEWING MACHINE CO. 

Frank Mack, President ; D. B. Chambers, Vice-President ; D. E. Cole, Secretary ; 
E. H. Harvey, Secretary ; W. A. Mack, Superintendent — General Office, No. 66 
Euclid Ave.; Factory, Nos. 1241 to 1249 Cedar Ave. 

The Standard Sewing Ma- 
chine Company was organized 
and incorporated in March, 
1885, with a cash capital of 
$200,000, and is one of Cleve- 
land's leading business con- 
cerns, employing a force of 280 
workmen and turning out dur- 
ing the past year 25,000 com- 
plete machines, which have 
been introduced and favorably 
received in every State and con- 
siderable town in the Union. 
The office, No. 66 Euclid 
avenue, is elegantly appointed, 
commodious, airy and well 
lighted, and a most attractive 
resort for ladies out shopping 
and sight-seeing. The great 
brick factory, four stories in 
height, 200 feet long and 44 
feet deep, with ample yards 
and appurtenances, is located 
at the intersection of the Penn- 
sylvania railroad and Cedar 
avenue, and is one of the most 
perfectly equipped establish- 
ments of the kind in the w^orld,. 
provided in every department 
with a superb complement of 
new and latest improved, wood, iron and steel-working machinery, much of it spe- 
cially designed for and constructed under patents held by this company. Mr. W. A. 
Mack, the inventor of the Standard sewing machine, is superintendent of the works, and 
has every detail under his personal direction. He and his brother Frank, president of 
the company, have made the sewing machine business the single pursuit of their lives, 
and are confident in their claim that the Standard has no peer in point of excellence. 

The machine is illustrated above. As will be seen, it is of an entirely new, beautiful 
and graceful design, light and artistic, yet strong. The cabinet work (genuine improved 
bent wood), is manufactured exclusively for this company by the inventor, Mr. E. F. 
French. The "Standard" is built upon a different principle from that used in ordinary 
lock stitch machines. Its shuttle is wheel shaped, and revolves upon its own centre. It 
does not cease its motion while the machine is in operation. The old style shuttles start 
and stop twice at every stitch. This causes great friction, strain, noise and unsteadiness 
when rapidly run. The "Standard" runs as easy, smooth and quiet at 1500 stitches per 
minute as most others do at 700. 

The following are a few of the noteworthy points of excellence: The "Standard" is 
self-threading throughout, except the needle. The needle is the shortest used in lock- 
stitch machines. Finer needles with the same sized thread or silk can be used than in 
any old style shuttle machine. The needle is self-setting. The thread is released from 
the tension by a slight pressure upon a button. This is a great convenience. If the ma- 
chine starts backward no harm is done. The thread remains unbroken. Winding the 
bobbin is very simple ; merely push the belt back of the winder pulley and put the bobbin 
on the spindle. The winding device is stationary, therefore always in position. The 
bobbin can be wound in half the time usually required on other machines. The bobbin 
holds one-third more thread than that of most other machines. 




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WHITNEY, RAYMOND & CO., 



I Manufacturers of the Celebrated United States Organs for Parlor, Church, Chapel and 
Lodges — No. 131 Windsor Ave. 

The organ steadily grows 
in favor, the consequence 
of continuous efforts on the 
part of manufacturers to 
develop its possibilities and 
bring it to^perfection. In 
some respects the organ is 
superior to the piano, and 
is preferred to all other 
musical instruments, and 
must continue to increase 
in popularity in exact ratio 
toils improvement. 

Of the numerous varie- 
ties of organ now before 
the public it is doubtful if 
there are any that combine 
in themselves so many 
points of excellence as 
those built by Whitney, 
Raymond & Co., of this 
city — certainly none are su- 
perior. In a recent circu- 
lar to the trade the firm 
;ays : " The manufacturers 
of the United States organs 
desire to reiterate their de- 
termination to make noth- 
ing but a first-class organ in every respect. We never have made, we never will make, a 
cheap, shoddy organ. No pains or eocpense is spared in the manufacture of our instru- 
ments, believing that the best is the cheapest. We employ none but tbe most skilled 
mechanics, use the best material that can be obtained, and the most approved machinery 
known in organ manufacture. This (together with over thirty years' experience as manu- 
facturers) is why the United States Organ stands to-day without a rival. It is not our pur- 
pose to enter into detail of the many superior qualities which this organ possesses over any 
and all others, nor should it be, nor is it necessary, for the name,United States Organ, man- 
ufactured by Whitney, Raymond & Co., of Cleveland, O., is of itself a sufficient guarantee 
that the instrument is a model of perfection. The manufacturers invite the closest and 
most critical examination, feeling confident, the closer the scrutiny the more highly will 
their organs be appreciated. Thousands of testimonials from prominent dealers and artists 
can be given, all speaking in the highest terms of this organ. We cordially invite both 
dealers and purchasers to visit our factory and convince themselves that all work and 
material used in the construction of our organs is of the best quality." 

These instruments, which are constructed in various styles and sizes — "Piano," "Ex- 
celsior," "Nonpareil," "Business," "Success," "Chapel," etc., are noted for their ele- 
gance of design, beauty of style and finish, purity and equality of tone, elasticity of touch 
— giving quicker execution than the piano — and general excellence of construction, em- 
bracing the following special points : Stop action, simple and noiseless, by means of anti- 
friction rollers ; adjustable by means of set screws, easily detached and replaced, by means 
of two sliding latches. Extension music desk — holds the book open and in place without 
the use of improvised strings and weights; inclines at the proper angle. Combined sliding 
lockboard and mouse-proof pedal cover — never binds or catches, is absolutely dust and 
mouse-proof. Equalized pedals, giving a natural walking motion to the feet. The new 
(patent applied for) piano pedal is verily the acme of perfection ; must be seen and tried to 
be appreciated. Terzo-mano, or third hand coupler — the latest and greatest improvement 
in reed organs — adds extra power and brilliancy, and produces a tone which thrills and 
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captivates all who hear it. The new fan-shaped lamp holder — a device which, when 
closed, forms an ornamental moulding, is spacious and strong, and recommends itself at a 
glance. 

Mr. O. C. Whitney began the manufacture of these organs on a small scale at Conneaut- 
ville, Pa., in 1856. In 1865 he removed to Meadville, Pa., and in 1870 to Cleveland, where 
the firm of Whitney & Slay ton was formed. Later Mr. F. L. Raymond acquired Mr. 
Slayton's interest, and subsequently Mr. A. H. Steadman was admitted. The capital in- 
vested is $110,000 ; eighty to one hundred men are employed ; vast numbers of instruments 
are produced, and are shipped to all parts of the civilized world. 



COMMONWEALTH IRON GO. 

Alex. Nimick, President; H. A. Tuttle, Vice-President; Wm. H. Harvey, Secretary 
and Treasurer ; John F. Whitelaw, Assistant Treasurer — Miners of Iron Ore — 
Mines at Commonwealth, Wis., on the Menominee Range; Offices, Rooms 60 
and 61 Wade Building. 

This flourishing company was organized and incorporated with a capital stock (paid up) 
of half a million dollars, in 1877. The officers are named above. President Nimick is a 
resident of Pittsburgh ; the others are Clevelanders. 

The company own 3,700 acres of iron mining lands at Commonwealth, Wis., where 
they conduct operations on a large scale, employing 150 men and shipping 75,000 tons of 
high grade hematite ore to the principal manufacturing centers of Ohio and Pennsylvaniaa, 
some of it being consumed by the rolling mills of Cleveland, while a steady and eager 
market is found in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 

The Commonwealth Iron Company is a strong and responsible one, steadily growing in 
importance with the development of the ore resources of the Northwest, and has added a 
large share to the weight of Cleveland as an iron market and shipping point.. 



CONDIT, FULLER & CO., 



Bar, Band, Sheet and Pig Iron, Nails and Spikes — Office, No. 122 Water St., Room 
23 ; Warehouse, Nos. 81 to 95 River St. 

This great house was founded in 1869 by Condit, Wick & Co., and was reorganized in 
1881 as Condit, Fuller & Co. Mi. Condit died in February, 1886, and the firm now con- 
sists of Messrs. S. A. Fuller, J. D. Clary, B. F. Bourne and H. A. Fuller. Mr. S. A. 
Fuller is also treasurer and manager of the Union Rolling Mill Co. of this city. Mr. 
Clary, of Irish birth, has been connected with the firm since its original formation, and 
is fully acquainted with the business in all its branches. Mr. Bourne has long been iden- 
tified with the iron and steel business, and is well and favorably known by the trade gen- 
erally. Mr. H. A. Fuller is a son of the senior member, and gives his time mostly to 
the office business. 

Condit, Fuller & Co. is one of Cleveland's heaviest iron houses, handling vast quanti- 
ties of bar. band, sheet and pig iron, steel, nails, spikes, etc., all manufactured goods 
being from the most reliable and celebrated American and English mills. The following 
list of manufacturers whom Condit, Fuller & Co. represent will convey a fair notion of 
the varied line of choice goods they carry: Youngstown Rolling Mill Co., hoop and 
band iron ; La Belle Iron Works, steel nails; Brown, Bonnell & Co., refined black sheet 
iron; Apollo Iron and Steel Co., black and galvanized sheet iron and steel; McDaniel & 
Harvey Co., patent cleaned charcoal sheet iron; Syracuse Tube Co., boiler tubes; 
American Tube and Iron Co., gas pipe and boiler tubes; A. M. Byers & Co., 
gas and water pipe; Burden Iron Co., boiler rivets, swaged horse and mule shoes; 
Rhode Island Horse Shoe Co., horse, mule and snow shoes; Francis Hobson & 
Son, English "Choice" and "F. H. Best" cast steel; Brown & Co., American "U. S." 
cast steel; Hussey, Howe & Co. (Limited), cast tool steel; Dilworth, Porter & Co., boat 
and railroad spikes. 

The firm have an elegant office at room 23, No. 122 Water street, and conduct a colossal 
three-story warehouse extending along River street from No. 81 to No. 95, where a strong 
force of clerks, laborers, etc., is employed. Heavy shipments are constantly being made 
to the trade and consumers, their principal market being in the States of Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, sales averaging $1,000,000 per annum. 



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THE CLEVELAND PAPER CO. 



N. W. Taylor, President; Edward Mill, Vice-President; C. T. Bicknell, Secretary 
and Treasurer — Manufacturers of all Grades Paper, Paper Bags, Flour Sacks, 
etc. — Office and Warehouse, Nos. 124, 126 and 128 St. Clair St. 

, - - ~- ~~~ _ This is the most extensive concern of the 

kind in the West, and was founded by Presi- 
dent Taylor in i860, becoming an incorporated 
company, with a capital stock of $300,000, 
the same year. The company own and oper- 
ate four paper mills and one pulp mill, as fol- 
lows : Mill No. 1, Broadway — devoted to 
fine book papers, covers with appurtenances 
ten acres of ground and employs 500 hands. 
This is a colossal establishment, superbly 
equipped, and its products are of the very 
highest grades, in great request by the trade 
everywhere. No. 2, Forest street — twelve 
acres — manufactures superior news and poster 
papers, and employs 100 hands. No. 3, the 
"Valley" mill — Independence street — em- 
ploys 150 operatives and turns out large quan- 
tities of news and the better grades of manila 
papers. No. 4, Monroe Falls, Ohio — makes 
wrapping and cheap carpet lining papers. 
Pulp mill, near the " Valley " mill, employs 
50 men and produces 6000 pounds of wood 
pulp in all grades daily, of the best grades, for the company's own use. 
(, f The company's great five-story warehouse, Nos. 124, 126 and 128 St. Clair street, is 
66^3 feet front by 165 feet deep ; the second, third and fourth floors devoted to storage of 
stock, the fifth floor to the manufacture of paper bags — fifteen machines being in operation 
daily ; the first floor to the office, salesroom and printing department, and the basement 
utilized as a press-room, where three large and five small cylinder presses are run the year 
round printing paper bags and flour sacks for the trade. Ten first-class printers and press- 
men are steadily employed, an average of 500,000 paper bags being turned out per diem. 
The capacity of the company is twenty-five tons of paper in all grades daily, most of 
which goes to the trade within a radius of 300 miles, though much is shipped to consumers 
all over the land. A leading specialty is made of paper bags, flour sacks and Japanese 
napkins — goods in which the house excels. In all 1000 people are employed. 




W. L. COTTRELL, 



Pattern- Maker— No. 53 Center St. 

No inconsiderable share of the credit attaching to the building of engines, machinery, 
furnaces-, etc., belongs of right to the ingenious and skillful pattern-maker, whose taste, 
experience and practical knowledge are often taxed to the utmost in preparing for the 
moulder and machinist the guides and patterns for new and intricate castings, much 
depending upon the beauty thereof — the combined lightness and strength of the design. 
Prominent among those who have contributed to perfecting this art and placing it upon 
its proper plane of dignity is Mr. W. L. Cottrell, whose extensive and well-equipped 
shops occupy a part of the second and all of the third floor of the capacious three-story 
brick building No. 53 Center street. Mr. Cottrell employs five skilled draughtsmen . and 
mechanics and does a large and increasing business with the foundrymen and machinists not 
only of Cleveland but of neighboring manufacturing centers, his orders for the past year 
aggregating $15,000 in value. Every variety of patterns for metal castings are here 
designed and executed in the best manner, at short notice and on reasonable terms. 

Mr. Cottrell came to Cleveland from Utica, N. Y., in 1835, learned his trade in the 
famous old Globe iron works, and in 1862 became a member of the firm of Cottrell Bros. 
Subsequently, for fifteen years, the firm was Cottrell & Bolton, then Cottrell & Jull, Mr. 
Jull retiring two or three years ago. Mr. Cottrell is a much respected and popular citizen, 
enterprising and liberal, and a prominent Free Mason. 



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CLEVELAND STOVE CO., 



Manufacturers of Cooking and Heating Stoves, Ranges, etc. — Corner Main and Syca- 
more Sts. 

The Cleveland Stove Co. is 
the successor of the Akron 
Stove Co., founded in 1851. 
The name was changed when 
the industry was removed to 
this city some twenty years 
S a g°- 1 h e officers are : Presi- 
dent, Geo. H. Wilson ; secre- 
tary and treasurer, N. A. 
Wilson ; capital stock, $240,- 
000. The premises at Main 
and Sycamore streets are spa- 
cious and convenient, the 
main building a four-story 
brick structure 60 x 60 feet,, 
with moulding room 30 x 70 
feet attached. Seventy men 
are employed, $700 a week 
paid in wages, and $150,000 
worth of finished goods placed on the market annually and sold in all the States. The 
specialties include the " Linden " cooking range, one of- the best, cheapest and most satis- 
factory devices of the kind in existence, and the new Lyman vapor stove, a complete, 
convenient and economical cooker, embracing all late ' and valuable improvements, ex- 
ceedingly popular wherever introduced. x ? 

Mr. J. H. Chapman, superintendent of the works, is ^a sicillful, capable and conscien- 
tious mechanic, who has been in his present position for the past ten years. 




C. BURNSIDE, 



Manufacturer of and Dealer in Harness and Belt Leather, Calf Skins and Hides — No* 

161 Canal St. 

The tannery now owned and operated by Mr. Burnside was first established by Theo- 
dore Brock in 1842. Mr. Brock sold out to Theodore Baker in i860, and in 1866 Mr. 
Burnside became the owner by purchase, and has always done a large, prosperous and 
growing business, his annual sales of recent years ranging from $ioo,coo to $120,000 in 
value. The plant is worth about $75,000, comprising the main building, a three-story 
brick 40x110 feet, with two two-story wings, one 26 x 38, the other 30x40, and a third, 
one story in height, 20x80 feet. All requisite machinery, vats, tools, etc., are provided, 
and sixteen to eighteen experienced and skillful tanners and curriers are steadily 
employed. Mr. Burnside's leading specialty, upon which his trade reputation rests, is his- 
superior " Union Cropp " sole leather, which for soundness, uniformity and all desirable 
qualities is unsurpassed. He is also an extensive producer of harness leather, calf-skins,, 
etc., and a heavy dealer in hides, his market extending from Michigan to Massachusetts. 

Mr. Burnside is a native of New Hampshire and a practical tanner, having served his 
apprenticeship in Vermont. He worked as a journeyman ten years for one man at Con- 
cord, N. H., and then for two years and a half for himself at the same place. He then 
removed to Cattaraugus county, N. Y., where for ten years he was in the lumber trade,, 
coming to Cleveland and taking possession of the tannery he now owns in 1866. Mr._ 
Burnside was one of the charier members of the Cleveland National Bank, and has been a 
director thereof since its organization. He has served nearly eight years in the City 
Council, of which he is a member at the present time, and was a member of the Board of 
Improvements for two years, and is now in his second year as a member of the Fire Board. 
Mr. Burnside was also chairman of the County Central Committee for two years, and is* 
now chairman of the City Central Committee, hence it is easy to perceive that his political, 
services have been valuable and onerous. He is also connected, with other public affairs,, 
and is a well-known and popular citizen. 



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WEST SIDE BANKING COMPANY. 

Lee McBride, President ; Chas. Fries, Vice-President ; T. M. Irvine, Secretary and 
Treasurer — No. 600 Pearl St. 

A conveniencp that is appreciat- 
ed and generously supported by the 
business men and residents of the 
West Side is the savings, commer- 
cial banking and exchange house of 
the West Side Banking Company, 
No. 600 Pearl street, corner of 
Lorain. This institution owes its 
establishment to Mr. T. M. Irvine, 
the secretary and treasurer, for- 
merly of the Commercial National 
Bank, and it is an evidence of his 
tact and ability that this new ven- 
ture, opened under a State charter 
September 18, 1886, is already a 
strong and flourishing institution, 
favored with the confidence and 
patronage of a constantly widening 
circle of discriminating people of 
all classes, residents of the West 
and South Sides and of Brooklyn, 
vieing with each other in the liber- 
ality of their dealings over its coun- 
ter. This bank in its savings de- 
partment receives deposits from 
one dollar upward, paying interest 
on such deposits at four per cent, 
per annum. In its commercial de- 
partment deposits of merchants, 
manufacturers and dealers gener- 
ally are received subject to check 
at sight. Checks sent out of the 
city 'or across the river are paid through the clearing-house. Excellent facilities exist for 
collecting drafts or notes on any part of the country. In its exchange department this 
bank issues its sight drafts on New York, or any country in Europe or the world. The 
bank is also prepared to loan money on approved real estate, secured by first mortgage, 
and to discount business paper or loans on good collateral at ruling rates of interest. 

Hours of business are from 9 a. M. to 4 p. M., except Saturday, when they are open 
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. 

President McBride is of the great dry goods firm of Root & McBride Bros., a director of the 
Union National Bank, and a city alderman. Vice-President Fries is of the dry goods house 
of Fries & Schuele. Secretary and Treasurer Irvine, as before intimated, is a practical 
banker, is also one of the best-known and most popular men in Cleveland, and was for 
fifteen years with the Commercial National Bank. The board of directors is composed of 
Lee McBride, Chas. Fries, John Meckes, O. C. Lawrence, F. Muhlhauser, T..M. Irvine, 
Martin Snider. J. S. Hartzell, H. P. Mcintosh, A. J. Marvin, Chas. Herrman, C. E. 
Gehring, Jr., O.'M. Stafford, H. Grombacher, and H. M. Townsend. 

With an authorized capital of $100,000, of which $50,000 is paid up, a fine banking 
house, splendidly equipped in all respects, a list of officers and directors of the highest 
character, and the confidence and good will of the public, the West Side Banking Com- 
pany cannot but thrive. 

WEIDEMAN & CO., 

Wholesale Grocers— Nos. 53, 55, 57 and 59 Water St. 
Messrs. J. C. Weideman and H. Tiedemann were the founders of this great representa- 
tive wholesale grocery house, as long ago as 1863, at No. 70 Merwin street, whence they 
removed in 1868 to Nos. 30 and 32 same street, and in 1873 to their own splendid four- 




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story-and-basement building, 77 x 125 feet, Nos. 53 to 59 Water street, which they continue 
to occupy. Meantime several changes of style occurred, viz : In 1867 to Weideman, Tiede- 
mann & Kent ; in 1870 again to Weideman & Tiedemann ; in 1871 to Weideman, Kent & Co., 
and finally, in 1886, to Weideman & Co., composed of Messrs. John C. Wiedeman, Ernest 
J. Siller, Christian Norten and Henry W. Weideman. 

The building occupied, and which we have already described, is one of the largest, 
most commodious and perfectly arranged for the purpose in Cleveland, provided with ele- 
vators and every improvement that will facilitate the transaction of business. A vast stock 
of the finest goods in the market, comprising full lines of staple and fancy groceries, teas, 
coffees, spices, canned goods, tobacco, cigars, etc., load every floor to repletion, while in 
the matter of fine liquors — of which the house makes a specialty — it is sufficient to say 
that all the most celebrated brands of bourbon and rye whiskies and imported brandies 
and wines are constantly carried for the convenience of the trade, who always find here 
the purest and best goods of every description. 

The concern is first-class in all respects, with a well-earned and lofty reputation, and 
buyers will consult their own interests by inspecting the goods and inducements offered by 
Weideman & Co. 



THE CLEVELAND BAKING COMPANY. 



S. S. Marvin, President ; C. N. Harrington, Vice-President and Manager ; C. E. 
Rumsey, Secretary and Treasurer — Manufacturers of Crackers and Bread — Bread 
Works, Ohio St. and Woodland Ave ; Cracker Works, Rear of No. 134 Ontario 
St.; Retail Department, No. 134 Ontario St. 

The Cleveland Baking Company, organized irf 1880, is the result of a consolidation of 
S. S. Marvin & Co.'s selling agency, one of the most successful business enterprises of 
the kind ever undertaken here, with the cracker manufacturing firms of Anthony & Moser 
and Tower Bros., both noted and prosperous houses — thus bringing together under one 
management ample capital, the highest business talent and large practical experience and 
skill. 

The company occupy two large buildings — the bread works at Ohio street and Wood- 
land avenue, two stories in height, 50 x 106 feet, and the cracker works, in rear of No. 
134 Ontario street, four stories, 43 x 125 feet. In the front of this latter building is the 
retail department, an elegantly-appointed and attractive store 20 x 180 feet. The capital 
invested is $20,000; ninety persons in all are employed, together with a full complement 
of late improved machinery, and the annual sales amount to $200,000, the great bulk 
of the goods being shipped in the form of cakes, crackers, biscuits, etc., to the trade all 
over Ohio and Indiana, and to various parts of Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan. 

There can be no question as to the excellence and popularity of the Cleveland Baking 
Company's goods at home and abroad. Made from the highest grades of flour and in 
the most skillful and cleanly manner, packed attractively and thus made inviting to both 
eye and palate, they are always salable and sought for by the best class of trade. This 
company is a success, and one of which Cleveland has a right to be proud. 



W. B. COBB, 



Manufacturer of the Eclipse Speed Lathe — Drill Presses and All Kinds of Special 
Machinery — Gear Cutting — No. 279 West River St. 

Mr. Cobb is the successor of Harris & Cobb, who established themselves at the same 
place in 1884. He is a Bostonian of great natural aptitude and experience, and a master 
of the machinist's art, theoretical and practical. His establishment, fitted up in the most 
substantial manner with all necessary appliances and devices, occupies one floor 40 x 60 
feet and employs five skilled workmen. Most of his work is performed in the city, 
fitting up old or constructing new devices for machinists, his great specialty being the 
famous "Eclipse" speed lathe, to which he has devoted much time and labor, and which 
is concededly the equal if not the superior of any similar machine ever brought out. He 
also constructs drill presses, upright drills and special machinery of all kinds to order, and 
is fast achieving success and distinction in his calling. Strict attention is given to all 
work committed to his care, including gear-cutting and repairing, and satisfaction guar- 
anteed. Mr. Cobb expects to triple his working force next season. During the past year 
he built to order thirty Eclipse lathes and much other special machinery. 



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THE VARIETY IRON WORKS COMPANY, 



Boiler Makers, Machinists, Founders and General Iron Workers — Cor. Carter St. and 

Scranton Ave. 




The above-named company, of which Mr. L. M. Pitkin is president and Mr. F. L. Cham- 
berlin secretary, was incorporated in 1866, with a capital stock of $60,000, increased in 
1886 on account of its growth and prosperity to $200,000, and has enjoyed a career of un- 
interrupted success save in the burning of its works in tire great fire of 1884. Yet even that 
was not an unmixed misfortune, since it enabled the company to rebuild on a much more 
extended scale and to introduce many improvements in plant and processes, thereby render- 
ing this one of the largest, completest and most comprehensive boiler works, machine 
shops and foundries in the country. The establishment is eligibly located at Scran„ 
ton avenue and Carter street, fronting 500 feet on the first and 375 feet on the last-named 
thoroughfare, the entire space being covered with substantial buildings, equipped in the 
best style with new machinery and appliances. A working force of 220 men is employed,. 
$10,000 a month is paid in wages, and the annual value of the output is estimated at 
$250,000. The great specialty is the manufacture of steam boilers of all kinds, marine 
locomotive, stationary and portable, for all purposes — a specialty in which the works have 
achieved deserved fame ; but a general line of plate, sheet, wrought and cast iron work is 
produced, including tanks, stills, smoke-stacks, breeching, forgings, machinery, shafts, 
pulleys, hangers, light and heavy castings, shaking grates, Butman fire fronts and auto- 
matic doors, railroad crossings, frogs, switches, switch, stands, track supplies, tie-bars, etc. 
The company is also proprietor of the Cleveland facing mills, and prepared to fill orders 
at short notice and in a satisfactory manner for seacoal, charcoal, XX mineral and stove 
plate facings, foundry supplies, crucibles, shovels, steel and brass riddles, molders' tools, 
fire brick, clay, etc. The company has recently purchased the Buckeye Bridge and Boiler 
works, at Hamilton street near Case avenue, and are already engaged extensively in build- 
ing bridges. President Pitkin has personal supervision of the works. 



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THE NATIONAL CARBON CO. 

W. H. Lawrence, President; W. C. Hayes, Treasurer — Manufacturers of Electric 
Light Carbons, Points and Battery Supplies — No. 40 Willson Ave. 



Probably no other place in the 
United States — certainly none in 
the West — can boast of as many 
or as extensive industries connected 
with electric lighting as are located 
here in Cleveland, embracing the 
entire collection of appliances from 
the mammoth dynamo to the most 
insignificant item - of equipment. 
One of the largest and most im- 
portant of these establishments is 
the National Carbon Company's 
works at No. 40 Willson avenue, 
crossing of the L. S. & M. S. rail- 
way. The company was incorpor- 
ated in 1886 with a capital of 
$250,000, to succeed the Bolton 
Carbon Company. The specialty 
is a superior grade of arc light 
carbons, in general use all over the 
United States, and received with 
much favor by all electric light 
companies and their patrons. 

The works comprise several sub- 
stantial buildings, as follows : The 
factory proper, a two-story brick 
structure, 50 x 250 feet in extent; 
engine-house, 26x71 feet; fur- 
nace-house, 46x150 feet; barn, 
32 x 32 feet, and gas-house, 16 x 19 
feet, the company making all the 
gas consumed on the premises from 
coal. Crude oil'is used for fuel 
at a saving of 40 per cent., and 
the latest improved appliances and 
processes are utilized in every de- 
partment. An Ide engine, of 150- 
horse power, runs all the machin- 
ery, which is both abundant and 
complex. One hundred men are 
employed, and the capacity is 
1,500,000 carbons per month, the demand being for 1,000,000 at present. 

The entire plant is neatly fenced in, and a switch connecting with the Lake Shore, 
and Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad tracks furnishes ample shipping facilities. 




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BEECHER FURNACE CO.. 

r« Manufacturers of Beecher's Air- Warming Furnace — Office and Foundry, Corner Elm 
and Winslow Sts.— W. F. Beecher and Thos. H. Cahoon, Proprietors. 




The above cut explains the principle of the famous Beecher Air-warming furnace. It is 
one of those devices which in a climate like ours is indispensable to health and comfort, 
and has won its way to the front rank upon merit alone. 

Another of the company's leading specialties is a superior line of soft coal stoves, which, 
with the Beecher furnace, are regarded with much favor, more particularly in the West 
and South. Thirty to forty men are employed, and goods valued at $50,000 to $75,000 are 
produced annually. 



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THE CHAMBERLIN CARTRIDGE CO. 

J. Palmer O'Neil, President; F. L. Chamberlin, Secretary and Treasurer; Edward 
L. Day, Manager — Manufacturers of Fixed Ammunition for Breech- Loading 
Shot Guns — No. 76 Superior St. 




Sportsmen owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. F. L. Chamberlin, the inventor of the 
automatic shell-loading machine, perfected in 1884, which has relieved them of the most 
tedious and disagreeable of their trials — the loading of shells, after a hard and weari- 
some day's tramp over field and marsh, mountain and stream, in preparation for the 
ensuing day's sport. Shotgun cartridges of a quality superior to any that can be loaded 
by hand are now supplied by the Chamberlin Cartridge Co., put up in convenient pack- 



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ages and every cartridge guaranteed. The paper shells used by the Chamberlin Cartridge 
Co., are those manufactured by the " Union Metallic Cartridge Co.," and " United States 
Cartridge Co." Each of these manufacturers are now turning out water-proof shells, 

The Chamberlin automatic 
cartridge machine is a wonderful 
example of what may be accom- 
plished by ingenuity combined 
with a thorough practical knowl- 
edge of mechanics. It is the only 
automatic shot-gun cartridge 
machine run by steam power, 
and is capable of producing 
absolutely perfect cartridges of any desirable caliber or for any kind of shooting. 

The following remarkable scores 
were made in the Chamberlin 
Cartridge Company's second an- 
nual tournament, at Cleveland, 
September 14, 1886. Each con- 
testant shot at 100 inanimate fly- 
ing targets : 98, 92, 93, 90, 92, 90, 
91 ; total, 646. The average of 
these scores is 92 2-7 per cent., 
and it is admitted by the shooters 
that no such record could have 
been made with hand - loaded 
ammunition. 

The Chamberlin Cartridge 
Company was incorporated in 
1884 with a paid up capital of 
$1,000,000, and is already a 
pronounced and remarkable suc- 
cess as a business venture, its 
cartridges being in steadily 
growing demand not only in this country but all over the world. Twenty men and a num- 
ber of machines are now employed, and the facilities are being constantly augmented at 
the factory, located on Independence street. The ware-house and offices occupy two 
floors, 20 x 180 feet, and employ five men. In addition, branch houses are maintained as 
follows: For the Atlantic States, the Atlantic Ammunition Co., 291 Broadway, New 
York; for the Northwest, the Western Arms and Cartridge Co., 108 Madison street, Chi- 
cago ; for the Pacific coast, the Selby Smelting and Lead Co., San Francisco. 

President J. Palmer O'Neil is a native of New York. Secretary and Treasurer Cham- 
berlin, the inventor, was born and reared in Cleveland, and is also secretary of the Variety 
Iron Works Company. Manager Edward L. Day, a iiative of New York, has resided in 
Cleveland for thirty-six years, and was for twenty-five years prominently identified with 
the window glass industry. 



GEO. V. MUTH, BREWER, 



Nos. 8 and 10 Buckley St. 

Muth's brewery is one of the noted features of Cleveland, and, while not so large or 
pretentious as some of its competitors, long ago made for itself a very high reputation, 
and Muth's beer is recognized by the trade and consumers as a standard beverage of the 
highest excellence as regards flavor, body and purity. This brewery was erected in 1868 
by the father of the present proprietor, and has been much improved by the latter. It is 
of brick, 60 x 100 feet, three stories in height, arranged with a view to economy of time, 
labor and space, equipped in the completest manner with all requisite appliances, employs 
fourteen men, ten horses and three wagons, and has an annual capacity of 25,000 barrels, 
yearly sales now being about ten thousand barrels, of an average total value of $80,000. 
Mr. Muth's trade is principally local, and of the best character, and is steadily increasing. 
From present indications it looks probable that the establishment will have to be enlarged 
ere long. 



obviating any necessity for brass shells. 





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McBRIDE & MARCELLUS, 

Manufacturers of and Dealers in Jewelry and Silverware — Wilshire Building, No. 209 

Superior St. 

McBride & Maecellus' This house was established in 1884, and has 

been very successful in building up a large 
and growing trade. They have an elegant 
office in the Wilshire building, and a store- 
room in which can be found everything fine in 
the jewelry line. The house carries a stock of 
watches, diamonds, jewelry and silverware 
valued at many thousands of dollars, and 
makes a study of fine goods at low prices. 
Their expenses, upon the second floor, are nec- 
essarily lower than those of first-floor dealers, 
and their aim is to give their customers the ben- 
efit. A specialty is made of manufacturing to 
order any novelty in precious metal that 
fancy may desire, and their success and rapid 
growth must be accepted as evidence of the 
satisfaction they are giving. The members 
of this firm are both young men, and give to 
the business the close attention and energy 
that brings to them the sure success that they 
$35 Solid Gold Watch, deserve. 



FOREST CITY STONE COMPANY, 

Quarrymen and Producers of Euclid Blue Stone, Kilbuck Brown Stone, Columbia 
and Millersburg Sandstone — Office, Room 7 Benedict Building, Euclid Ave. 

The beautiful building stones of Ohio long since attracted attention, but it was not 
until the development of a railway system penetrating all sections of the State and the 
Union that it was found possible to utilize them at a distance from the quarries. At pre- 
sent, however, the " Euclid " bluestone, "Ohio" brownstone, " Columbia," "Millers- 
burg" and other sandstones are favorably known and rapidly coming into use all over the 
Eastern and Middle States, the demand augmenting in volume and the trade growing in 
importance and value of output year by year. 

Among the more conspicuous and successful operators in this class of material may be 
named the Forest City Stone Company of this city, proprietors and operators of vast 
quarries at various points, whose mills, distributing yards and docks are situated on West 
River street, with office in room 7 Benedict building, Euclid avenue. The company or- 
ganized in 1870, during which year they took out but 18,000 feet of stone, whereas, at 
present, the capital invested exceeds $ico,ooo. As an indication of the phenomenal 
growth of the business it need only be stated that the sales for the past year have ex- 
ceeded 200,000 feet from the Euclid quarries alone. The quarries of the company, among 
the most valuable in the State, are located at Euclid, Columbia, Millersburg and Kilbuck. 

The personnel of the company is of the highest character, comprising Messrs. W. H. 
and W. C. Stewart, natives of Vermont, who have resided in and been identified with 
Cleveland for forty years, and Mr. John Holland, born in Ireland, and a citizen of Cleve- 
land about as long as the Stewarts. All are A 1 business men, public-spirited, liberal 
and enterprising. Messrs. John Holland and W. C. Stewart give their undivided atten- 
tion to the interests of the firm, while Mr. W. H. Stewart is division freight agent of the 
Pennsylvania Company of Cleveland. 




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CHANDLER & PRICE, 



Manufacturers of Printing Presses, Printing Machinery and Printers' Appliances — 
Office and Works, East Prospect St. and C. & P. R. R. Crossing. 




For all practical purposes the old-style Gordon press, as improved hy Messrs. Chandler 
& Price, has no superior and few equals. It runs lightly, is very fast, does its work to 
perfection, is provided with patent throw-off, patent chase-hook, hardened steel cam- 
rollers, and other valuable improvements, and is in all respects useful, accurate, swift and 
substantial. All necessary appurtenances are supplied, and it is remarkably cheap as 
compared with inferior machines. 

This firm are also manufacturers of the celebrated *' 6]/ 2 x 10" lever press, price $35, 
a very handy machine, as well made as the higher priced ones, easily operated, and handy 
for small card and other jobs, saving time in getting ready. Chandler & Price's proof- 
press is very handy in book, job and newspaper offices. They also manufacture a superior 
line of plain and nickel-plated screw and Yankee composing sticks, together with an 
endless variety of printing office conveniences and appliances, which are supplied to the 
trade at moderate prices. 

The firm, composed of Messrs. H. T. Chandler and W. H. Price, jr., was established 
in July, 1886, and has already achieved success, occupying a three-story brick building 
40 x 80 feet, fitted up with steam power, employing thirty hands, and turning out five 
hundred to six hundred presses and large quantities of other machinery, etc., per annum. 

The shop is equipped with the best machines and appliances that can be purchased, in- 
cluding many special tools of their own manufactuie. Every article of their make is 
guaranteed to be the equal (and in most cases the superior), of any thing of its class in 
the market, and of the best material and workmanship. The hardened cast steel cam- 
rollers and the shafts are ground perfectly true on a Brown & Sharpe Universal grinding 
machine (of which they have two), and in fact their aim is to attain the perfection of 
workmanship which has heretofore been found only in the best machine tool builders, and 
which has never before been attempted by manufacturers of this class of printing presses. 
This firm has opened up a rapidly increasing Australian business, where the superiority 
of their goods is acknowledged by all. 



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OHIO ENGRAVING COMPANY. 



C E. Wyman, Proprietor — -Artistic Engraving on Wood, Photo and Map Engraving, 
Electrotyping, etc.— Room 47 City Hall. 




Everything that comes from the press nowadays is or should be illustrated. Books, 
magazines, newspapers, catalogues, hand-bills, advertising dodgers — everything to which 
it is desirable to attract attention is a proper subject for the exercise of the artist's and 
the engraver's art, and the possibilities of illustration are as yet undeveloped. 

The engraver is to a certain extent the accurate historian of his time, for he produces, with 
the aid of the artist, the means of picturing indefinitely as to numbers of copies the men 
and things of his time, thus transmitting to succeeding generations impressions of current 
events and the actors therein such as could be conveyed by no amount of descriptive writ- 
ing. It is in the utilitarian arts, however, that the engraver's skill finds its best and most 
remunerative field — the production of engravings of machinery, buildings, etc., relating 
to trade and manufactures, and the prospects of his constantly increasing employment 
herein seem infinite. 

Among the comparatively few artistic engravers of whom Cleveland can boast, Mr. C. 
E. Wyman, proprietor of the Ohio Engraving Company, ranks deservedly high. Having 
been in the engraving business nearly twenty years has gained for him the confidence of 
his many patrons. Mr. Wyman occupies room 47 City Hall building, employs six accom- 
plished engravers and artists, and does much of the finest and most intricate work of that 
kind produced in Cleveland, his specialties embracing every description of portrait and 
object engraving on wood, photo and map engraving in all styles, engraving on metal, 
etc., together with electrotyping. He has every requisite facility for the execution of 
first-class work, and fills orders at short notice and in the best manner for customers in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. 

Mr. Wyman, himself an artist and engraver of high repute, employs only the best talent, 
and invariably renders satisfaction to his patrons. Mr. Wyman has been a resident of 
Cleveland since 1868, and is deserving of the popularity he has gained in this branch of 
business. 



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CITIZENS' SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. 

J. H. Wade, President; H. B. Payne, H. W. Leutkemeyer, Vice-Presidents; W. S. 
Jones, Secretary and Treasurer— No. 108 Superior St., Wade Building. 

This prosperous and useful institution was chartered in 1868, with a capital stock of 
$1,000,000, and has been remarkably successful throughout its career, conferring immense 
benefits upon depositors, the community and. its stockholders alike. At this time the un- 
divided surplus held for investment and to the order of stockholders exceeds half a mil- 
lion, supplying an ample fund for all legitimate operations. At first located in the 
Atwater building, the bank removed in 1877 t0 No. 123 Superior street, and in 1887 to its 
present quarters, No. 108 Superior street, Wade building, where it occupies the elegantly 
appointed and handsomely furnished first floor — one of the finest banking houses in the 
United States. The vault, situated in the basement, is a very large and costly one, con- 
structed of chrome steel plates put together from the inside, the whole four inches in 
thickness and furnishing absolute security from fire and burglars. 

This bank is prepared to receive deposits of large or small sums from any part of the 
country and to make loans on real estate first mortgages to a liberal-amount. The utmost 
care is exercised in all transactions, and every safeguard provided against loss to depositors, 
whose moneys to the extent of $5,000,000 are here held in trust. 

The character of the officers is a sufficient guarantee of the bank's good management. 
President J. H. Wade is also president of the Valley Railway Company , and of the 
National Bank of Commerce, and is a director of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. 
Vice-President H. B. Payne is United States Senator from Ohio, is one of Cleveland's 
foremost, most noted and wealthiest citizens, and is at present erecting on Superior street 
a block of business buildings which when completed will be the most magnificent in the 
State. Vice-President Leutkemeyer is a prominent manufacturer and hardware dealer. 
Secretary and Treasurer Jones, who came into -the bank in 1875, is also secretary and 
treasurer of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan, Kalamazoo & Allegan and Grand Rapids 
Railroads. 



WEIL, JOSEPH & CO., 

Manufacturers of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Cloaks— Nos. 69 and 71 St. Clair St. 

Though established less than three years this house has already made for itself a first- 
class reputation and secured a liberal share of orders from the trade throughout the 
country, requiring the services of about 150 persons in all departments, manufacturing, 
sales and shipping. The fine five-story-and-basement brick structure Nos. 69 and 71 St. 
Clair street, 40 x 120 feet, is none too large for their use, and it is evident that greater 
facilities and increased accommodations will ere long be required in order to meet the 
demands of their growing trade. 

The house was founded in January, 1885, at Nos. 63 and 65 St. Clair street, removing 
last fall to the present location. The firm itself is composed of Mr. M. Weil and the 
firm of Koch, Goldsmith, Joseph & Co., the operations being under the personal manage- 
ment and supervision of Messrs. M. Weil and Isaac Joseph, experienced cloak manu- 
facturers and astute business men, who devote their entire time and best energies to the 
best interests of the concern. Mr. Weil is a native of Cleveland, for twenty-one years an 
active member of the firm of M. Halle & Co., while Mr. Joseph came here from New 
"York in 187 1. 

Messrs. Weil, Joseph & Co. are exclusively wholesale manufacturers of ladies', misses' 
and children's cloaks in latest styles and all grades, and offer to the trade such induce- 
ments as few houses west of New York can afford. We have no hesitation in 
recommending them to buyers as in all respects reliable, responsible and upright. 



S. ALLEN'S SONS, 

Miners and Shippers of Coal— Office, Room 11 Bratenahl Block. 

This old and reliable coal firm is now represented by Mr. J. C. Allen since the death of 
his brother and partner, Mr. Frank Allen. The house was established in 1880 by S. Allen 
&Son, the senior member retiring and the present style being adopted in 1885. The firm 
own 200 acres of excellent coal lands in Carroll county, Ohio, employ 125 men, and last 
year put on the market 101,000 tons of high grade steam and domestic coal, which for the 



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most part 'was sold and consumed in Cleveland, this fuel meeting satisfactorily the 
requirements of both manufacturers and householders, who signified their approval 
thereof by liberal purchases. It is emphatically a steam coal of the best quality, and is 
especially recommended for that purpose. The vein from which it is obtained 'is in a 
mountain-side, four and a half to five feet deep, and good for a number of years to come. 
The Aliens came to Cleveland from Carroll county, where the sons were born. 



THE WESTERN SUPPLY AGENCY. 

J. E. Williams, Manager— Manufacturers' Agent for Lard Oils, Lubricating Oils, etc. 

— No. 129 River St. 

Railroad companies, mill-owners, machinists 
and other large consumers of the commodities 
handled by the Western Supply Agency will 
be interested in this brief outline sketch of its 
origin, history and facilities. . 

Mr. J. E. Williams, the manager, an experi- 
enced dealer in oils, etc, seeing the necessity 
that existed in this market for a general agency 
of the kind, opened the concern in February, 
1886, and at once entered upon a successful 
business career. At the present time two en- 
tire floors, 22 x 80 feet, No. 129 River street, 
are required for storage, salesroom and office 
purposes, and the venture steadily grows in 
popularity and volume of transactions. The 
specialties include full lines of high grade lard 
and lubricating oils, pure natural West Virginia 
oils, cotton waste, etc., together with the cele- 
brated " Rocky Mountain " grease cups and reli- 
able crank pin grease. Just now Mr. Williams is 
introducing to his trade an entirely new variety 
of journal lubricator — the " C. H. Moore" 
grease, manufactured at Cincinnati, a combin- 
ation of mineral and animal oils which meets 
with great favor at the hands of consumers. 




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WHITBECK & WALLACE, 

Successors to Geo. Klooz — Dealers in Fine Cutlery, Mechanics' Tools, Carriage and 
Builders' Hardware, Agricultural Implements, Whips and Brushes — No. 263 
Pearl St. 




Messrs. W. P. Whitbeck and R. H. Wallace became proprietors of this establishment 
in February last, coming from Berea for that purpose. The hou^e was founded by Geo. 
Klooz twenty years ago, Mr. K. being succeeded by the firm of Klooz, Wolf & Matthews. 
The premises comprise a substantial brick building, 40 x 70 feet, No. 263 being occupied 
as a hardware store, while No. 265, adjoining, is a complete stove store and plumbing es- 
tablishment. The firm carry a large stock in both branches, comprising fine cutlery, me- 
chanics' tools, carriage and builders' hardware, agricultural implements, whips, brushes, 
steel plate ranges, heating and cooking stoves, lamps and lamp trimmings, plumbers' and 
gas-fitters' supplies, furnaces, tinware, ship and house-furnishing goods, etc. They also 
conduct a well-equipped tin, copper and sheet iron shop, where work is promptly done to 
order, and a plumbing and gas-fitting department. 

These gentlemen are enterprising, energetic citizens and capable business men, and de- 
serve the popularity and large patronage they enjoy. 



A. J. WENHAM'S SONS, 

Jobbers^in Teas, Syrups, Canned and Fancy Groceries — Nos. 138 and 140 Water St., 

Corner Frankfort. 

The founder of this conspicuous mercantile house was Mr. A. J. Wenham, who came 
hither from England and established himself in the grocery trade in 1850, living to see 
his house take rank with the largest on the lakes, and dying in 1885 full of years and business 
honors. The present firm is composed of Messrs. A. A. and F. L. Wenham, worthy sons 
of a worthy sire, and Mr. C. D. Fortlage, admitted during 1887. All were reared in 
Cleveland and are personally interested in the city's good name and prosperity. 

The buildings occupied are of the most capacious and eligible for the purpose in Cleve- 
land, located at the corner of Water and Frankfort streets, 50 x 120 feet, four stories and 
basement. Thirty men — clerks, salesmen, etc. — are employed, and the sales (which are 
steadily increasing) aggregated about $1,000,000 for 1886, the house doing a wholesale 
business exclusively in teas, syrups, canned and fancy groceries, of which they are jobbers, 
and shipping to Northern and Eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania principally. 
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THOMPSON MANUFACTURING CO., 



Manufacturers of Iron Roofing, etc.— Office and Works on L. S. & M. S. Ry., Be- 
tween Gordon and Waverly Aves. 




As^the representative of one of the most important branches of the building trades of the 
country the Thompson Manufacturing Company stand at the head in the manufacture of 
iron roofing, siding, etc. Established ini87i by Thatcher & Thompson, changed to Moser 
& Thompson in 1880, and to the Thompson Manufacturing Co. in 1884, during the en- 
tire time the business has been pushed with energy and enterprise, and a trade has been 
established that extends to every portion of the United States, and with a continual increase 
in the annual sales. Commencing in 1871 with two hand machines with a capacity of only 
twenty squares per day, the company has now a plant consisting of a spacious one-story 
iron-sheathed frame building, 80 x 152 feet, and equipped with the best of machinery of 
their own invention, which is operated by steam power and capable of turning out 1,300 
squares per day. Commencing with the manufacture of one kind of iron-roofing, they now 
manufacture five sizes of corrugated iron for roofing, siding, ceiling and partitions, either 
straight or curved, crimped and double-cap iron for roofing, beaded iron for siding, ceil- 
ing and partitions, fire-proof doors and shutters, galvanized iron gutters, etc. They also 
furnish designs and estimates and erect iron frame buildings and iron truss roofs cov- 
ered with corrugated iron. 

Combining a thorough knowledge of the requirements of the trade with unsurpassed 
facilities for promptly filling orders, and a liberal business policy, the Thompson Manu- 
facturing Co. is in a position to afford builders, contractors and property-owners advan- 
tages in the supply of their line of work difficult to procure elsewhere. 



CLEVELAND PETROLATUM CO. 

H. M. Brown, Manager — Manufacturers of Densoline Petrolatum U. S. P., and All 
Refined Heavy Products of Petroleum, Filtered Cylinder Stocks, Gelatine, Castor 
and All Lubricating Oils — Nos. 767 to 773 Pearl St. 

The Cleveland Petrolatum Company was organized in 1882 with a cash capital of 
$60,000, and at once began a career of usefulness and enterprise that has made it famous 
all over the world. The works, Nos. 767 to 773 Pearl street, are the largest of the kind 
in the United States, built of brick, two stories in height, 80 x 80 feet, with wings 20 x 60 
and 16 x 80 feet respectively. A superb equipment of apparatus and special machinery 
of ingenious construction completes the plant. All processes being secret in their nature, 



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a description of them is of course unobtainable and must be omitted. A working force 
of fifteen trusty and well-paid men is employed, and the output is enormous, both in 
•quantity and value, this being the only competitor of the Chesebrough monopoly, and put- 
ting on the market a line of preparations of far superior merit. 

The Cleveland Petrolatum Company are the originators and sole manufacturers of the 
wonderful Densoline, the purest and most highly improved concentrated petroleum jelly, 
officially designated by the United States Dispensatory as "Petrolatum U. S. P.," and 
•employed as an ointment by the leading physicians and surgeons of the world. It is 
manufactured directly from natural petroleum without the use of chemicals, and is en- 
dorsed by the profession and by eminent pharmacists everywhere. It is prepared as a 
universal basis for all salves and ointments, and in several additional, forms for various 
purposes, as plain for external use, as a pomade for the hair, as a cold cream, carbolated, 
camphorated, arnicated, as a bland, soothing oil, as a cosmetic, for veterinary use, as a 
hoof ointment, and as a harness oil — incomparably the best ever offered. It is supplied 
tto the trade, put up in neat and attractive styles, at prices as low as honest goods can be 
sold for. The company also produce full lines of the finest and purest lubricating oils 
for all classes of machinery, cylinders, etc. 

Mr. H. M. Brown, the manager, is a native of Cleveland and eminently qualified by 
nature and training for the position he fills so acceptably. Under his able management 
these goods have made for themselves a market in all quarters of the civilized earth, 
maintaining general agencies at London, Liverpool, Melbourne, Hamburg, Rio Janeiro 
and other principal commercial centers. 



P. L. SWORD & SON, 



Manufacturers of Brick Machinery, Clay Crushers and Carriers — Office, Room 5, No. 5 
Euclid Ave.; Works, Bessemer Ave. 

The enormous quantity of brick used daily in the construction of all classes of buildings, 
together with t,he improvements constantly added in machinery for rapid manufacture, 
make this a business of the first importance, giving employment to thousands of individ- 
uals. The superiority of machinery over the old process of manufacture by hand has 
completely revolutionized the business and allows of immense quantities being made in a 
single day where it formerly took weeks and months to accomplish the same. In the South- 
ern States, where wood formerly entered exclusively into the construction of buildings, the 
general adoption of brick during the past five years, both on account of its stability and 
cheapness, has been the means of influencing an increased demand on brick machine 
manufacturers' resources and encouraging an industry new to some portions of these 
:States. Among the celebrated manufacturers of this class of goods none have gained a 
wider reputation than P. L. Sword & Son, and throughout all sections of the country may 
.be found in daily operation machines of their manufacture. The double automatic brick 
machine manufactured exclusively by this firm has a daily capacity, according to size, of 
from 15,000 to 35,000, producing the same at one-third the cost, without variation in the 
least particular. Another feature which distinguishes this machine above all others is 
ithat it will make a perfect brick to repress, a fine stock brick, a brick with a perfect 
grain. This feature commends itself to intending purchasers. 

The other specialties manufactured and handled by these gentlemen are the Sword im- 
proved patent brick machine, with a capacity of 30,000 daily, the portable hake and 
•truck, the Raymond perfection brick press, the Avery seamless steel buckets for clay, ore, 
or any damp substance, combined with a clay crusher and carrier, besides other special- 
ties. The business was first established by P. L. Sword in 1868, and in 1877 C. Sword, 
•son of the founder, was admitted. The present capacity is seventy-five plants annually, 
netting $200,000. At present the trade is confined chiefly to the Southern States, but the 
East and West also draw largely on their resources. In connection with the business 
they have in operation a large brick yard, where 50,000 brick are made daily. They are 
also agents of the Boston Terra Cotta Company's celebrated goods. 

All of the gentlemen comprising the firm are natives of Adrian, Michigan, and during 
their residence in this city have not only made friends and established a prosperous busi- 
ness, but are respected by all with whom they come in contact. 



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STANDARD BOOK BINDERY AND BLANK BOOK MANU- 
FACTORY. 



Chas. Haker, Proprietor — Blank-Books, Law Books, Magazines, Ruling, Perforating 
and Numbering — No. 197 Superior St. 

Books, like men and women, de- 
pend largely upon appearances for 
success — that is to say, they com- 
mend or disparage themselves by 
the dress they wear, and are often 
chosen or rejected because pleas- 
ing or unpleasing to the eye. It 
is, therefore, of the firstimportance 
to the bookseller, the publisher 
and the author that works intend- 
ed for popular dissemination 
should receive attention at the 
hands of a skillful and tasteful 
bookbinder before being placed 
on sale — such a bookbinder, for 
instance, as Mr. Chas. Haker, pro- 
prietor of the Standard bookbindery and blank-book manufactory, No. 197 Superior street. 
Mr. Haker, a native of Cleveland, is a practical bookbinder who has made a study of the 
art since boyhood, and has achieved success both as a mechanic and a business man. He 
established the Standard bookbindery and blank-book manufactory in 1881, on the via- 
duct, soon afterward removing to his present eligible location, where he has one of the 
most complete concerns of the kind in the West, equipped in every department with the 
latest improved labor-saving machinery, and employing a competent force of trained hands. 
He does a large and growing business, principally with Cleveland printers, publishers, 
merchants, manufacturers, railroad and navigation companies, and gives prompt personal* 
attention to all orders. 



THE WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 



M. M. Mower, Manager — Proprietors of Dr. Frazier's Root Bitters, Dr. Williams' 
Indian Pile Ointment, etc. — No. 122 Water St. 

Notwithstanding the hue and cry against patent medicines, it cannot be successfully 
disputed that many instances can be adduced to prove that even desperate cases of disease 
have been relieved and cured by them after experienced physicians had abandoned hope 
and the patients together. We did not, however, start out to write a labored disquisition 
upjn medicines, patent or otherwise, but to call attention to the Williams Manufacturing 
Company of Cleveland, and the remedies to the compounding of which it devotes its atten- 
tion, viz: Dr. Williams' Indian pile ointment, Dr. Frazier's throat and lung balsam, Dr. 
Flagg's family ointment, Dr. Frazier's root bitters, Dr. Frazier's magic ointment, Mrs.. 
Dr. Walton's periodical tea, Dr. Benton's hair grower, Dr. Benton's pine troches, Dr. 
Benton's nerve tonic, all of which are renowned curatives of the diseases for which they 
are recommended, and quite popular with that large and increasing class who regard with 
suspicion the faculty's loud and universal execration of everything not regularly prescribed 
by a regularly Darchmented M. D. (who may or may not know the difference between a pur- 
gative and an astringent) and who pin their faith rather to what they see in the form of 
results than to what they are told as a matter of theory. 

The Williams Manufacturing Company was established in the City Hall building in 
1885, but for want of room was forced to move to its present quarters in the large building 
No. t22 Water street, in 1885, where two elegant offices are occupied. The laboratory and 
factory are located elsewhere, and the correspondence and general business of the com- 
pany are transacted here, where Manager M. M. Mower has everything under his personal 
supervision. Mr. Mower, who is a native Ohioan, educated in Cleveland, has been con- 
nected with the manufacture of this class of goods since 1881, and is an active, enterprising 
and reliable gentleman, who devotes his best energies to his calling, with the result that 
the remedies of his company are becoming better known and more highly appreciated day? 
by day, and are found in every well-regulated drug store in the United States. 




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J. J. SHEPARD, 



Manufacturer and Shipper of West Virginia Fire Brick, Fine Fire Clay and Tile — 
Manufacturers' Agent for Best Brands of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Fire 
Brick — Nos. 35, 37 and 39 River St. 




Fire brick, fire clay and tile are having a boom, and the dealer who keeps abreast 
■of the times with the best goods at comparatively the lowest prices is certain of 
generous patronage and consequent prosperity. Such a dealer is Mr. J. J. Shepard, 
whose great three-story office and warehouse building, 100x150 feet, at Nos. 35,37 
and 39 River street, is at all times heavily stocked with superb lines of these 
materials. Mr. Shepard, whose works are on the Ohio river, is an extensive manufacturer 
and shipper of high grade West Virginia fire brick, fine fire clay and tile, and also manu- 
facturers' agent for best brands New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio fire 
brick of all conceivable shapes and sizes, filling orders at short notice and in a manner 
satisfactory to buyers. He makes a specialty of odd shapes, and parties requiring such 
will do well to communicate with him by mail or telegraph. Mr. Shepard was formerly 
manager for G. H. Barstow, to whom he succeeded in 1885. 



W. H. GARLOCK & CO., 

Steam Laundry and Shirt Factory — Sheriff St., Between Euclid Ave. and Pros- 
pect St. 

Viewed in the light of everyday development, the conclusion is inevitable that ere 
many years " wash-day " with its miseries will have forsaken the American household 
forever. Already the tidy housewife is beginning to patronize the great public steam 
laundry, sending thither much of her finer work rather than turn her home over periodi- 
cally to the dominion of Bridget and a consequent chaos of steam, soap-suds, bad tem- 
per, cold dinners and discomfort. Her lord, her father, brothers and sons long ago 
learned that the only chance to obtain clean linen, stylishly laundried and fit to face a 
cold and critical world, was to send their garments to the same beneficent modern in- 
stitution. 

Among those who have contributed to this result Messrs. W. H. Garlock & Co., of 
Sheriff street, between Euclid avenue and Prospect street, are worthy of special mention, 
their great steam laundry occupying the front rank in this branch of industrial enterprise. 
Mr. Garlock began in a small way in July, 1883, but soon built up a trade in both laundry 
work and shirt manufacturing that demanded additional capital and supervision, so in 
1885 he took a partner in the person of Mr. James M. Stewart, an energetic and capable 
gentleman, and from that time to the present the concern has had a constant boom, as 
will be seen by the fact that during 1886 200,000 shirts and 1,750,000 collars and cuffs 
were laundried at this establishment, and the patronage still grows rapidly and steadily. 
The laundry occupies two floors, 65 x 80 and 33 x 80 feet respectively, of the four-story 
brick building above indicated, hut will soon require more room. Eighty-two men and 
girls and a fine complement of machinery are employed, and the pay-roll foots up $525 
per week. Work is done for people all over the city and a great deal sent in from the 
adjacent towns. Collars and cuffs are a specialty in which this firm excels. The busi- 
ness amounts to $75,000 per annum. 

Mr. Garlock (who also conducts a large shirt-making establishment in connection with 
the laundry) is something of an inventor, having devised one machine that starches 240 
■shirts an hour and another that irons ladies' collars without injury to the fabric. He is a 
native of Rochester, N. Y. 



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C. F. FENTON, 



Manufacturer of Fenton's Family Medicines — Dealer in Drugs and Patent Medicines- 
— No. 88 Bank St., Corner of St. Clair. 

There are lossilized specimens of humanity in every community who^ 
cry down everything that is not "regular" in medicine, and would 
rather see their families and neighbors perish of disease under the care 
of an old-time practitioner than permit their lives to be saved by any of 
the well-indorsed proprietary medicines that have during the past quar- 
ter century performed thousands of wonderful cures and made for 
themselves world-wide reputations. We do not write for the bigoted 
class referred to, but for those who have sufficient penetration and com- 
mon sense to recognize a good thing when they see it, and avail them- 
selves of its benefits. 

Among those remedies which have proved their value and acquired rank as standard and 
family medicines, those prepared by the Fenton's Manufacturing Company of Cleveland 
stand pre-eminent. In a notice of this kind we have space only to refer to them by 
name simply, as follows: C.F. Fenton's Concentrated Extract of Sarsaparilla, or Matchless 
Liver, Blood and Kidney Syrup, the best blood purifier ever discovered ; Ohio Dyspepsia 
Cure ; Universal Y. C. Salve ; Pain Expeller ; Lung Balsam ; Fever Expeller (root bit- 
ters) ; Sovereign Pile Sanative ; Grandmother's Cordial, for teething children ; Cholera 
Preventive; Worm Expelling Lozenges ; Matchless Star Brand Sarsaparilla; the Sd. Syp. 
Specific, guaranteed to be the best in the world. All of these jnedicines have made their 
fame, which rests upon a foundation of solid merit. 

Dr. C. F. Fenton, the originator and compounder of these unrivaled curatives, is su 
native of Pennsylvania, reared in Ohio. He established himself in Cleveland (at No. 1 58 
River street) in 1859, removing a few years ago to his present location, No. 88 Bank street, 
northeast corner of St. Clair, where he occupies with drug store and laboratory the first 
and second floors, 30 x 50 feet. Here he has every facility for manufacturing on a large 
scale, and supplies the wholesale trade of the world with the medicaments named from 
headquarters. 



E. R. HULL & CO, 



Ready-Made Clothing, Hats, Caps and Furnishing Goods — No. 127 and 129 Ontario- 
St.; 584 to 588 Pearl St.; Newburgh, and Akron. 

While no reasonable being objects to the possessor of ample funds going to a fashiona- 
ble tailor for his garments, it is nevertheless a fact that of late years such strides have been 
made by the trade that the enterprising and conscientious manufacturer and dealer in ready- 
made clothing can fit out his patrons in apparel as stylish, as fine, as well made and as 
perfect in fit, finish, and all other essentials, at prices twenty-five to sixty per cent, less than 
the same grade of goods can be supplied by the custom tailor. 

Among those who have been prominent in the movement to this end, the firm of E. R. 
Hull & Co., Nos. 127 and 129 Ontario street, Cleveland, are conspicuous. Originally estab- 
lished in 1872 by the late famous C. R. Mabley and E. R. Hull, the house has always stood 
in the front rank of the trade. Mr. Mabley died in 1883, and the present firm, composed of 
Messrs. E. R. Hull, S. E. Graves and J. C. McWatters, was soon afterward organized. 
All are [capable business men, alert and obliging, and their success in the face of de- 
termined competition has been phenomenal. 

The firm carry an immense and carefully selected stock of superior clothing, hats, caps, 
furnishing goods, etc., of their own and the best Eastern manufacture, and offer as good 
bargains as can be found in any similar house East or West. Their store is a very fine 
one, 40 x 120 feet in area, four stories in height, and a constant scene of bustling activity 
from Monday morning to Saturday night, their annual sales at this place alone footing up half 
a million dollars. As an indication of their expenditures it may be stated that their pay 
roll for clerk hire averages $600 a week. 

The firm maintain several branches— one on Pearl street west of the river, one in New- 
burgh, and a third in Akron. The members are liberal, public-spirited gentlemen, re- 
spected and liked by all classes. 




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THE OHIO BAKING COMPANY. 



S. C. Morris, President and Manager — Manufacturers of Superior Vienna and Domes- 
tic Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pastries, etc. — No. 633 Superior St. — Capacity, 20,000 
Loaves per Day. 

The Ohio Baking Company was organized and established in 1885, 
and is already a pronounced success, enjoying the public confidence 
to a remarkable degree and a trade at this time second to none of 
the oldest of its competitors, and is growing steadily and rapidly. 
The reasons for this great prosperity are not far to seek, and are 
found in the high quality of products placed upon the market' — the 
light, snowy, crisp and appetizing,, yet healthful Vienna and do- 
mestic breads which comprise the leading specialties, and the de- 
licious rolls, cakes and pastries for which the establishment is al- 
most equally noted. An immense business is done. A force of thirty to forty men is 
employed, together with a steam engine, revolving ovens, and all appropriate', machinery, 
and the works are capable of turning out 20,000 loaves daily, with a proportionate quantity 
of other goods. Trade is mostly local in character, but an increasing volume of ship- 
ments are made to neighboring cities and towns, and the transactions easily reach $100,- 
000 a year. 

Mr. S. C. Morris, president and manager, was born in Cuyahoga county, and has re- 
sided in Cleveland for the past twelve years. 



T. A. KELLEY, 



Broker in Grain, Provisions, Stocks and Petroleum — No. 130 Water St. 

In these days of speculation, legitimate and otherwise, the stock, grain, provision and 
petroleum broker is a necessity to all business centers, and occupies a position of trust 
and responsibility hardly second to that of the board of trade official. Chief among the 
indispensable requirements of the broker who would succeed and retain the respect and 
confidence of his patrons and the public, are unswerving honesty, quick perception, a 
thorough knowledge of the markets, suavity and nerve. In all of these essentials we have 
seldom, if ever, met any who were the superiors and few who were the equals of Mr. T. 
A. Kelley, the well-known and popular grain, stock, provision and petroleum broker, who 
occupies two elegant offices at No. 130 Water street. Mr. Kelley has been engaged in his 
present calling for the past three years, and has made a host of friends by his promptitude, 
upright dealing and gentlemanly bearing. He does a strictly legitimate business in actual 
commodities, and his rooms are always well filled with the best class of investors, every 
transaction being on the square and for delivery. No margins are handled, and bucket 
shop tactics are ignored. The facilities are first-class, including special wires to Chicago, 
and New York and ready messenger service. Such a house as this is a credit to the city 
and a great convenience to a very respectable group of business men. 



W. E. KELLY, 

Machinist and Constructor of Electrical and Mechanical Specialties — No. 26 South 

Water St. 

Mr. Kelly, a Pennsylvanian by birth and an accomplished artisan, has resided in Cleve- 
land for the past ten years and made for himself quite a reputation for ingenuity, rare skill 
and thorough mastery of the laws and principles of mechanics as applied to electrical and 
other delicate and intricate devices and machinery. June 13 last he embarked in business 
on his own account, having thoroughly equipped a neat workshop at No. 26 South Water 
street with all requisite machinery for the work he has in view. 

Among Mr. Kelly's late achievements may be mentioned the improved bell punch used 
by the conductors of the East Cleveland Street Railway Company and a new quadruplex 
telegraphic apparatus, constructed upon entirely novel principles, for the handling simul- 
taneously of four messages on a single wire. He gives special personal attention to fine 
work of all kinds in machinery and to the repair of electrical apparatus, and those who 
leave their orders with him may be assured of the best possible service. 




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HILL CLUTCH WORKS. 




; H I L L CLUTCH (a) 



H. W. Hill, Manager and Proprietor — Manufacturer of Friction Clutches, Shafting, 
Hangers, Pulleys, Couplings, etc. — Office and Works, Foot of Waverly Ave. 
and L. S. & M. S. Railway. 

Friction clutches have long since been demon- 
strated a valuable invention and a real necessity 
in power and transmission, both for the sake of 
economy and convenience. Mr. H. W. Hill, the 
patentee and manufacturer of the clutch herewith 
illustrated, is a successful inventor and mechan- 
ical engineer who established himself as a manu- 
facturer at Chicago in 1884, removing to this city, 
where he found a more attractive field of opera- 
lions, in 1886. The "A" clutch is made with 
iither two or four arms, according to the amount of 
jower to be transmitted. The " A " clutch pulley, 
as shown in the illustration, has a clutch ring cast 
'. not bolted) into the arms of the pulley. The ring 
is turned and finished absolutely true, and is? 
grasped on the outer and inner sides by the eight 
clutch members, which are shod with thoroughly 
seasoned maple. The radial motion of the jaws 
or clutch members is produced by the sliding 
collar being pushed toward the clutch, operating 
the link and two angle levers with which it is 
connected to the clutch jaws in such a manner as 
to force the outer jaws inward and the inner jaws outward until they grip firmly both 
sides of the ring, and also so that the sliding collar cannot be kicked out. The clutch is 
operated very easily without jar or start to the machinery, and is key-seated securely to 
the shaft. The pulley, of course, runs loose on the shaft. It is nicely finished and accu- 
rately balanced, fitted with an automatic grease cup and the Hill patent split movable 
sleeve or bushing, which is babbited with the best babbit 
metal. The slight wear on the wood jaws may be taken 
up by the set screws, and when worn can be removed. All 
parts of these clutches are made strictly to gauge, and du- 
plicates of any part maybe ordered by number to take the 
place of those worn out or broken by accident, and the 
new parts will fit in their places as perfectly as the old. 

The interchangeability of all like parts of these clutches 
is an entirely new feature in this class of devices. The 
new clutch " B," which is also illustrated, is a new fea- 
ture which is being generally adopted in all sections of the 
country. The advantages which these clutches, clutch- 
pulleys, and couplings possess are obvious to every skilled 
mechanic, and their general adoption throughout the 
world, wherever machinery is in use, is only a question of 
a few years. The process of manufacture is on an entirely 
new principle, perfected by Mr. Hill, and the materials 
used are of the best grade to be obtained. 

The company's works, at Waverly avenue and the L. S. & M. S. railway, are fitted 
with specially designed machinery of the largest and costliest description. Fifty skilled 
mechanics" are constantly employed, and the first year's output will exceed $150,000. In 
addition to the leading specialties above mentioned, everything in the shape of pulleys, 
shafting, couplings, hangers, etc., is manufactured to order. The designing and arrange- 
ment of electric light plants, flouring and saw-mills and other extensive work of this char- 
acter, is another feature of which Mr. Hill makes a specialty. With the increase of busi- 
ness and the large demands for their specialties, the company will, during the coming year, 
make many additions to their already extensive works, and at the rate with which their busi- 
ness has multiplied they will, in the course of a few years, be the largest manufacturers of 
their class in the world. 




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BOWMAN BROTHERS, 



Importers and Jobbers of Earthen Ware, Glass and Plated Ware — No. 188 Su- 
perior St. 

There is probably no finer or more extensive estab- 
lishment of the kind west of New York than the mam- 
moth earthenware, glass and plated ware house of 
Bowman Brothers, No. 188 Superior street, occupying 
four immense floors, each 21 x 150 feet and stocked in 
every department with select lines of all goods pertain- 
ing to the trade, ranging through all grades from the 
plainest and cheapest to the rarest china, cut glass and 
triple-plated wares from the most noted foreign and 
;\ American manufacturers. No description that we 
j|j could pen of this glittering bazar could possibly do it 
even partial justice, and we forbear the attempt, simply 
advising the trade and buyers in lots to visit and see 
the limitless array of tempting goods displayed. Ten 
clerks and salesmen are employed in the house, besides 
several well-known and popular travelers, and the 
transactions of the firm multiply in number and volume 
year by year, extending all over the Central North.' 

Messrs. I. T. and H. C. Bowman are Pennsylvanians 
by birth. The senior member came hither in 1859, the 
junior member in 1865, when the house was established 
under the style of Bowman Bros. & Levan. Mr. Levan 
retired in 1882, whereupon the present style was 
adopted. The utmost care is exercised in the selection 
of all goods offered to the trade by. Bowman Brothers, 
and the buyer can do no better either in merchandise or prices than here. 



BOURNE & KNOWLES M'F'G CO. 

E. H. Bourne, President ; S. Bourne, Secretary ; W. M. Crowell, Treasurer — Manu- 
facturers of Nuts, Washers, etc. — Corner Main and Elm Sts. 

Persons unacquainted with the trade would be astonished if placed in possession of the 
statistics concerning the manufacture of nuts, washers, rivets, etc., which are employed 
to a greater extent and for a greater variety of purposes daily, their range of usefulness 
covering the entire field of the industrial arts from the building of great bridges and 
steamships to the construction of musical instruments, sewing machines, electrical appa- 
ratus and other delicate devices requiring the utmost nicety of adjustment. 

In 1866 Messrs. Bourne, Damon & Knowles established at Main and Elm streets the first 
nut and washer works in Northern Ohio. In 1871 the firm became Bourne & Knowles, 
and ten years later the Bourne & Knowles Manufacturing Company was incorporated with 
a paid-up capital of $75,000. The plant comprises a commodious brick building 45 x 100 
feet and two stories in height, besides five or six frame shops of various kinds, fitted up 
in the best and completest manner with improved machinery, and employing 55 to 60 
men. The annual output is valued at about $125,000, and is disposed of to the trade 
and consumers all over the Union, principally in the Western States and territories. 

President E. H. Bourne was born at Wareham, Mass., Oct. 22, 1840. Previous to his 
removal to this city, October, 1866, he was for some years assistant treasurer of the Old 
Colony Railroad Co. At this time he is cashier of the Union National Bank and presi- 
dent of the Cleveland Spring Company. Secretary S. Bourne, also a native of Wareham, 
Mass., succeeded his brother as assistant treasurer of the Old Colony railroad, removing 
to Cleveland nine years ago. Mr. W. Crowell, 37 years of age, is also from Massachu- 
setts, and has lived here for nearly twenty years, for the past six of which he has been treas- 
urer of the Bourne & Knowles Manufacturing Company. 




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DAVIDSON & HOUSE, 



Manufacturers of and Dealers in Lumber, Doors, Sash, Blinds and Mouldings, Pack- 
ing and Trunk Boxes — No. 91 Scranton Ave. 

Cleveland's lumber trade ranks with her most important interests, the capital invested 
in it aggregating some $4,000,000. The facilities that exist here for the handling of prod- 
ucts of the forest are unexcelled by those of any port in the United States, and very few 
exceed her annual transactions therein. A prominent and flourishing house engaged in the 
purchase and sale of rough and dressed lumber of every description, and the manufacture of 
building materials, etc., is that of Davidson & House, whose office is at No. 91 Scranton ave- 
nue, with large planing mill and yards attached. The mill is a substantial structure, 100 
x 200 feet, and the yards 200 x 300 feet. The plant represents an investment of $35,000;. 
one hundred men are employed, and the value of manufactures averages $8,000 
per month — outside the large sales of raw material — embracing manufactured goods of 
every description, doors, sash, blinds, mouldings, etc., a leading specialty being the man- 
ufacture of packing and trunk boxes for the use of manufacturers, dry goods merchants,, 
grocers, and the trade generally. The location is a most advantageous one, the mill 
equipment first-class, the proprietors enterprising and popular gentlemen, and the condi- 
tions, all in all, are favorable for building up a trade, local and shipping, second to that 
of no similar concern here or elsewhere. 



W. J. WHITE, 



Chewing Gum Manufacturer — Nos. 24 to 32 South Water St. 

Mr. W. J. White came here from Canada at the age of seven, and in 1873 found him- 
self in Detroit, Mich., with a cash capital of seventy cents, with which he purchased two 
pecks of popcorn and two pounds of sugar, and at once converted his materials into a stock 
of popcorn cakes, which were disposed of to trie retail trade at seventy cents per hundred 
and the profits reinvested in the same manner. This plan was faithfully adhered to for 
some few months, when Mr. White came to this city and opened a small shop on Pearl 
street. In 1876 he removed to Lorain street and began manufacturing for the wholesale 
trade. Prosperity attended him, and after various changes he occupies three great floors 
at Nos. 24 to 32 South Water street, 50 X75 feet, two' of which are devoted to the manufac- 
ture of chewing gum and one to the making of paper boxes and packing cases. Nine men 
and eighty girls are employed. Mr. White's trade reaches every corner of the continent,, 
and his sales for last year aggregated $100,000. Of " Chicle" (Red Robin brand) gum 
alone 200,000 boxes were sold. His machinery is so perfect that when required he can 
turn out 5,000 pounds in ten hours. A speeialty is made of pure Yucatan gum, and in. 
this connection it is worthy of note that never since he commenced operations has Mr. 
White used a single ounce of adulterants of any kind. 



GEORGE G. ROSS, 

Mattress Manufacturer — Office and Factory, East Prospect St., near C. & P. R. R. 

The greatest and most perfect of life's comforts is sound, refreshing sleep — such repose 
as can be found only on a good bed. Consequently the manufacturer of the better grades 
of this class of goods is a public benefactor and deserves well at the hands of his harrassed 
and rest-seeking fellow-mortals. Such is Mr. George G. Ross, the well-known mattress 
and bedding manufacturer and jobber of spring beds, No. 11 East Prospect street, near 
the C. & P. railroad crossing. These works were established in 1870 by Lane, Kendall & 
Co., succeeded in 1873 by the Lane Mattress Co., and in 1882 by Mr. Ross, who occupies- 
a large three-story frame building, the ground floor 30X 170, the upper floors 30 x 75 feet. 
Fifteen men and a valuable complement of appliances and machinery are employed, and; 
a supei-b line of goods turned out, including every description of husk, African fibre, 
excelsior, wool, cotton and other mattresses and bedding, a leading specialty being made of 
fine hair mattresses of the best quality and most approved styles. Mr. Ross is also a jobber 
on a large scale of improved spring beds, his specialty in that department being the 
"Durable."' His trade, which averages $50,000 a year, extends territorially throughout 
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 

Mr. Ross is a native of New York City, a pleasant, enterprising and upright gentleman. 



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CARLING & COMPANY. 

Brewers of Amber Ale, Pale Ale, and XXX Porter— No. 393 West River St. 

The name of Carling is almost as well known to the malt liquor trade, and to the full as 
popular and as sure a guarantee of excellence, as that of Bass or Guinness. John Carling 
began the brewing of fine ales and porter at London, Canada, in the year 1800, and his 
descendants continue the business there on a large scale. In 1880 the present John Carling,. 
head of the house of Carling & Co., decided to establish a branch in Cleveland, and Messrs. 
John S. McBeth as manager and Hugh Spencer as brewer came here for that purpose, se- 
curing a location at Seneca and Canal streets. The venture prospered — so much so 
that it became necessary to seek more commodious quarters, which were found at the 
foot of the hill on West River street, where a perennial spring of the purest water (an in- 
dispensable essential to good ale and porter) gushes forth from the earth, and here was. 
erected a fine three-story brewery, 120 x 140 feet, provided with ample cellars and all. 
other necessary conveniences. On the first floor are the handsome 22-horse-power 
boiler and 18-horse-power engine, together with much valuable machinery and appliances. 
On the second floor are several eighty-barrel kettles, an immense mash-tub, and four large : 
settling vats. On the third floor are the big cooler, the fermenting tubs and other appa- 
ratus. The cellars, four in number, are devoted to the storage of ale and porter in bulk, 
previous to bottling, which latter process is also carried on in the establishment. 



CITY FOUNDRY COMPANY. 

Manufacturers of Light and Heavy Castings— Hammer Dies and Wire Mill Guides 
a Specialty — Hamilton St., Opposite Hoadley. 

The growth of the iron manufacturing industry in all its. branches has brought about a 
corresponding demand for new and improved devices for facilitating the mechanical oper- 
ations pertaining thereto. The City foundry on Hamilton street is playing a conspicuous 
part in this branch of enterprise, producing a great deal of the most effective and latest 
improved machinery, light and heavy castings, special tools, etc., employed in modern ., 
rolling mill and machine shop work, and giving close and skillful attention to the con- 
struction of hammer dies of every description and wire mill guides, their work in this- 
line meeting the approval of the trade everywhere, more particularly in Cleveland and. 
Pittsburgh, where it has been adopted in all of the leading mills. The castings made here 
are also held in high estimation where introduced, and the company is already doing a. 
large and flourishing business, though organized as late as 1886. The only changes so 
far have been the retirement of Mr. F. Hill and the admission of Mr. Joseph Knorr, the 
firm now consisting of Messrs. Charles Patterson, James Lonergan and Joseph Knorr. 
The works are 50 x 120 feet, adequately equipped with boiler, engine and all requisite 
machinery, and employ twenty-five to thirty skilled workmen. 



WM. HARRISON, 



Manufacturer of Pressed and Stock Brick— Yard, Corner Petrie and Clay Sts.; Resi- 
dence, No. 1484 Broadway. 

Mr. Harrison is one of the oldest, best known and most reliable of those who have con- 
tributed to the material upbuilding of Cleveland, having been engaged in brick-making 
since 1852, starting for himself in 1865 — twenty-two years ago — during which time he- 
has furnished to builders and contractors a vast total of superior bricks, keeping abreast 
of all improvements and maintaining the high grade of his products under all circum- 
stances. His plant at Petrie and Clay streets is valued at about $5,000, including three 
acres of fine clay land, Martin brick machinery, sheds 60 x 200 feet, wagons, horses, etc. 
Fifteen men are employed, and an average of 2,000,000 bricks, valued at $1 10,000, are 
turned out per annum. Mr. Harrison makes both pressed and common bricks, and his 
facilities are equal to all demands. He carries a large stock of common brick, and is 
prepared to respond to any reasonable call upon his resources. 

Mr. Harrison came to Cleveland from the North of Ireland in 185 r, and is a valuable 
and popular citizen. He supplied the brick for the Cyclorama building, corner of Euclid 
avenue and Erie street, the common brick for the Wilshire building on Superior street 
and the Blackstone building on Seneca street. 



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CLEVELAND MACHINE CO. 

D. P. Eells, President ; F. L. Ford, Manager, Secretary and Treasurer ; W. P. Hatch, 
Superintendent — Manufacturers of Paper Box Machinery, Drop Forgings, etc. — 
Corner Columbus and Leonard Sts. 

The past few years have witnessed great improvement in the character of paper box 
machinery, drop forgings, etc., and the Cleveland Machine Company is justly entitled to 
much of the credit attaching thereto. The works now operated by this company were 
established by Messrs. Stillman Witt and H. B. Payne in 1874, passing into the hands of 
the present company at a later date. The capital invested is about $50,000, the works 
occupying a substantial three-story brick structure 110x130 feet square. One hundred 
men are employed, and the output averages $125,000 a year in value, comprising a varied 
line of the devices already named, together with every description of forged steel shears 
and scissors, Shipherd's anti-rattling fifth wheels, shaft shackles and quick shifters, 
"Acme" shafting rails, side-bar spring shackles, etc., all of the best material and design 
and of superior workmanship. The fame of the Cleveland Machine Company's produc- 
tions has extended far beyond our own country, and a considerable demand has arisen for 
them (and especially for the paper box machinery) in England and Australia, where they 
are popular because of their simplicity, accuracy and rapidity of operation. 

Mr. Eells, president of the company, is also president of the Commercial National Bank 
of Cleveland, a well-known and much respected citizen. The other officers are all capa- 
ble and industrious gentlemen, far-seeing and enterprising. 

E. H. JONES & CO., 

Engineers and Dealers in Engines, Boilers, Pumps, Wood and Iron Working Machin- 
ery, etc. — Nos. 221, 223 and 225 River St. 

This house was established in 1876 by E. H. Jones & Co., the style changing, a year later, 
to Jones & Van Wie, and in 1884, on the withdrawal of Mr. Van Wie, to Jones & Co., the 
" Co." being a matter of form, since Mr. E. H. Jones is sole proprietor and manager. 
Mr. Jones is a native of Michigan and graduated from the civil engineering department 
of the Ann Arbor University in 1871, since which time he has devoted himself to perfecting 
a novel and original system of steam plant construction which is regarded with much favor 
by manufacturers and others interested, bringing both fame and business success to the 
inventor, and economy of space, power and fuel to his patrons. We have not space for a 
detailed description of the plan here, but all particulars and explanations are furnished by 
Mr. Jones to parties interested. 

The warehouse at Nos. 221, 223 and 225 River street, foot of Superior, is a very 
large one, 75 x 115 feet, and exhibits a splendid array of improved. engines, machinery and 
appliances — "Payne," "Straight-line," "Atlas," "Corliss," and other popular steam 
engines, steel and iron boilers of the latest styles, Worthington and other improved steam 
pumps, wood and iron- working machinery of every description, etc., which are supplied 
at manufacturers 7 prices and set up in the best and most effective manner to order. 

Mr. Jones' great specialty lies in mechanical engineering, the designing and construc- 
tion of first-class steam plants on contract, a line of work in which he is unexcelled. 

THOMAS CONNOR & CO., 



Produce Commission Merchants — Nos. 68 and 70 Prospect St. 

Messrs. L. A. Thompson & Co. were the founders of this house, away back in 1874. 
Connor, May & Pitts succeeded in 1876, Connor & Pitts in 1878, Connor & Ingraham in 
1885, and the present firm of Thomas Connor & Co. in 1886. Notwithstanding the 
various changes of style, the house has always stood high in public confidence and done a 
large and prosperous business. At present occupying an eligibly located and commodi- 
ous two-story building with ample basement, they have every facility for handling on a 
large scale every description of country produce, dairy products, apples and small fruits, 
berries, etc., their transactions averaging $100,000 per annum. The leading specialties 
include fruits, potatoes, poultry, butter and eggs, and, extending every accommodation 
to consignees, the firm is exceedingly popular. 

Mr. Connor is a native of Belfast, Ireland, has resided in Cleveland since 1848, was for 
sixteen years with A. J. Wenham as salesman, and has been in the commission business 
ever since. The firm refer to Weideman & Co., A. J. Wenham's Sons, and the Cleveland 
National Bank. 



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New First-Class Hotel 

American Sl European Plan. 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



C. D. Collins, Manager — American Plan, $3 to $5 Per Day; European Plan, Rooms 

$1 to $2.50 Per Day. 

HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 

The Hollenden was pro- 
jected by Mr. L. E. Holden 
and begun in the summer 
of 1883. It is built on 
the corner of Bond and 
Superior streets. The site 
is well known to the citi- 
zens of Cleveland as the 
Philo Chamberlain and 
Sterling property. The lot 
is 260 feet front on Bond 
street, 134 feet on Superior 
street and 134 feet on Vin- 
cent street, thus giving 
three fronts on prominent 
streets for the hotel, and 
when completed it will 
cover the entire ground. 
In the summer of 1885 tne 
first section of the hotel 
was completed, being 140 
feet on Bond street from 
Vincent street toward Supe- 
rior street, consisting of 135 
rooms. During the year 
nearly all of the rooms 
were occupied, and so 
great was the encourage- 
ment that the proprietor 
was obliged to make ar- 
rangements to enlarge the building. During the year 1886 a stock company was 
organized for the purpose of building the HolJenden Hotel, consisting of Messrs J. H. 
Wade, William J. Gordon, C. H. Bulkley, Stevenson Burke and L. E. Holden, and in the 
spring of 1887 contracts were let for the completion of the structure, which, when com- 
pleted, will be one of the best 'arranged and most thoroughly equipped hotel buildings on 
this continent. It will contain 420 rooms, all with outside light and ventilation, and it 
will have one hundred bath-rooms. The work department alone is the most perfect ever 
built. It is a building by itself, fifty feet square, seven stories high, and in it are located 
the appointments for the work and service of the hotel. There is no connection with the 
main house except across an area by a covered gallery from the kitchen to the serving 
room, and from the laundry to one floor in the main house ; thus all noises and unpleas- 
ant smells are separated entirely from the main house. There is not a spot in the kitchen 
or laundry, and it may be said in the entire structure, where a bug or mouse could live. 
Nothing has been spared to make this the safest and most complete hotel work depart- 
ment in the world. It is fitted up with electric lights, with a hydraulic elevator, and with 
steam power to be used wherever it is possible for power to be used. 

The Hollenden is built of pressed brick, with Amherst stone trimmings. The entire hotel 
is divided into three principal divisions. The first contains the office, dining-room, par- 
lors, billiard and toilet rooms and most of the rooms for transient guests. The second con- 
tains rooms largely used by permanent guests of the hotel. The third contains all the 
departments relating to the service of the house. The larger and most important section 




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of the building is built on the corner of Bond and Superior streets, and is fire-proof 
throughout. Each street front is divided up into five sections, three of which are built 
on the street line, the two alternate sections being recessed back from the street line two 
feet. This gives a large amount of light for the basement and an additional two feet 
thrown into the street. The exterior of the building is exceedingly plain, thus preventing 
the excessive accumulation of soot and dirt. The only purely architectural feature about 
the exterior of the building is the Doric caps and bases on the pilasters in the first story 
supporting the superstructure. With this exception the exterior of the building is entirely 
plain, being the outgrowth of plain common sense construction rather than architectural 

-design. The corner of the building, however, is carried to a considerable height, serving 
as a landmark which will be conspicuous for years to come. It forms a tower surmounted 
by a steep-pitched roof, covered with black slate, against which four massive gables are 
shown in relief in a very severe but artistic manner. Projecting at various points on the 

'exterior of the building are octagonal and circular bays, thus giving a fine outlook from a 
large number of rooms, adding greatly to their value and the appearance of the exterior 
of the building. All this plainness which has been so conscientiously studied and arrived 

: at on the exterior of the building entirely disappears on entering, although the plan has 
been carried out in as simple a manner as possible. The main entrance on Superior street 

:1s located directly in the center of the Superior street front of the building, and is formed 
of massive and richly moulded stone pilasters and lintels, and the vestibule and hall, 
which are finished with marble floors and wainscoting, and walls and ceiling in solid 
relief ornament. This entrance leads into what is probably the most elegant hotel office, 
with one exception, in the country. In addition to the main entrance on Superior street 
there are also two entrances on Bond street, one of which will be in the center of the main 
portion of the building and the other will be used as an additional ladies' entrance, and 
opens into the portions of the hotel largely occupied by permanent guests. There will 
be passenger elevators at or near all of these entrances, and there are five hydraulic ele- 
vators in all in the building. On Bond street there will be a restaurant or cafe, which 

Is finished in mahogany, with tile floor and of ample size. 

OFFICE. 

The ceiling of the office is about thirty feet above the floor, and the size of the 
office proper is about 40 x 80 feet, with large additional lobbies connecting. Di- 
rectly opposite is located the office desk, whence a view of all persons entering or 
-leaving can be obtained. At the right of the main entrance are the two passenger ele- 
vators and ladies' reception room, and on the left are the main stairs, of white marble, with 
"marble wainscoting at the sides formed of variously colored American marbles, and to the 
-second floor, above which point they will be finished in mahogany, with large railing on 
the sides and landings. Under the main stairs will be located the stairs leading to the 
basement above referred to, which will also be finished in marble in the same manner. The 
passenger elevators will be furnished .with every modern appliance for safety and speed, 
-with wrought iron or frame doors, and all baggage will be carried to the several floors by 
means of a separate specially adapted freight elevator, and the facilities for easily and 
rapidly handling baggage will be superior to any at present adopted. The pilasters, which 
form the principal feature of the office, will be finished for a height of fourteen feet with 
marble and bevel plate glass mirrors, above which will be decorated plaster work. Be- 
tween the pilasters at the ceiling will be sprung Roman arches, which will be finished in 
mahogany, and the entire ceiling of the office will be finished with mahogany beams, the 
spaces between which, being filled with richly ornamented glass, will light the entire office 
brilliantly. The spaces between the pilasters and the arches will be filled with light ma- 
hogany partitions and glass, thus giving light to all rooms adjoining and opening from the 
office. At night the lighting will be accomplished by means of several powerful arc lights 
suspended above the glass ceiling of the office, but under the skylight above the ceilmg. 
This will give a very uniform and soft light, more nearly approaching daylight than any 
other method of illumination. 

READING ROOM. 

The reading room, news stand, barber shop, cigar store and physician's office are on the 
Bond-street side of the office. On the left of the office are the entrances to the billiard 
rooms and basement and a large spacious club room for meetings ; also wash rooms, gen- 
tlemen's toilet rooms, etc. On the Superior street front are located what probably will be 
used as a drug store, ladies' reception room, Western Union telegraph and two fine 
.stores. All the frontage on both streets in the basement will b'e occupied as shops and 



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•offices. The walls and ceilings of the reading room will be finished in mahogany, and 
portions of it will be richly carved. One of the principal features of the reading room 
will be a massive mantel, richly decorated, in keeping with the style and finish of the 
room. 

TURKISH BATH. 

In the basement will be located the most complete and extensive Turkish bath in this 
-section of the country. The entrances to the basement above described are by means of 
marble staircases, and the billiard room, although located in the basement, will be 40 by 
•80 feet, without any posts or obstructions. The ceilings will be finished in glass, the Aoor 
will be marble tiled, and all spaces in the walls not occupied by piers will be filled with 
clear glass. The usual accessories to the billiard room will accompany it. The dining, 
.reading and serving rooms are located on the second floor. 

ORDINARY. 

- The ordinary will be 30 x 40 and 14 feet high, and fronts on Superior street. 

DINING ROOM. 

The dining room will be about 40 by 80 and 25 feet high, and there will be a number of 
private dining rooms and an elegant banquet hall. The general style and design of the 
'office will be carried out in the dining room, although there will be considerable more 
woodwork in place of the marble and glass, and the ceiling will be finished in mahogany 
surrounding large panels richly decorated by solid relief ornaments. In various places in 
this ornament there will be located incandescent lights. This will be the finest dining- 
room in any hotel in the United States. 

SERVING ROOM. 

The serving room will be very extensive, will contain all the most approved and latest 
..inventions in the way of serving room appliances, and will be connected by means of the 
covered gallery directly with the kitchen. 

KITCHEN. 

* The kitchen is located in the third section, and the entire building in which it is located 
is absolutely fire-proof throughout. The kitchen has a floor formed of one huge monolith 
of artificial stone. The walls are lined with white porcelain enameled brick, and the en- 
tire room is brilliantly lighted by windows on three sides. Below it is the bakery, fitted 
with revolving bake oven, and adjoining it is the hotel store, where all goods for the 
house are received. 

BOILER AND DYNAMO ROOMS. 

Below the bakery and hotel store are the boiler and dynamo rooms, which have been 
fitted up in the most complete and perfect manner possible. 

LAUNDRY. 

Above the kitchen is located the laundry, ironing and drying rooms, which are fitted 
with the most recent inventions. The upper stories of the building above the laundry 
are devoted entirely to the help of the house for dining rooms and servants' bed rooms-. All 
the main portion of the hotel above the second floor is devoted to the guests' parlors and 
sleeping rooms. A large number of them are arranged in suites with private bath rooms 
between, and the plumbing will be put in in compliance with the most approved and latest 
sanitary laws. The rooms are all fitted up with electric lights, and every floor of the 
building is constructed with terra cotta ceilings, and the partitions between the numerous 
heavy brick walls will be wire-lathed and packed solidly with mineral wool. About three 
hundred tons of this material will be used. While this building will be constructed as 
nearly fire-proof as any building can be, there will be the customary electric alarms and 
calls, and always an easy and sure escape in case of incipient fires by means of the wide halls, 
opening as they do into the separate and semi-detached portions of numerous fire escapes 
accessible from a number of the interior rooms. Each room is virtually as safe as a fire- 
proof vault. The finish of the halls and stairways will be Spanish mahogany, and the fur- 
niture will be especially designed for this house, thus making the most magnificently fur- 
nished hotel in the United States. 

The main portion of this building was designed by Mr. George F. Hammond, architect, 
•of the city of Cleveland, and erected under his supervision. 



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THE O, YOUNG COAL CO. 

Otis E. Young, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager— Miners and Shippers of Camp 
Creek, Massillon, and Camp Creek Cannel Coals— Room 37, Grand Arcade, No. 
101 St. Clair St. 

The O. Young Coal Co. was organized 
in 1879, and has performed its full share 
in developing the Cleveland fuel market. 
The capital stock of the company amounts 
to $60,000, all paid m, and the mines are 
located in Sugar Creek township, Stark 
county, Ohio — the celebrated Camp Creek 
and Massillon coal region — the vein being 
sixty inches in thickness and practically 
inexhaustible. One hundred men are em- 
ployed, and the output averages 50,000 
tons per annum — the leading specialty be- 
ing Camp Creek cannel coal, this company 
having exclusive control of that superior 
fuel in this market. The company removed 
from Elyria to Cleveland on the first of 
April last, and has two fine offices — No. 37 
Grand Arcade Building, No. 101 St. Clair 
street. 

Mr. Oliver Young, the developer of this gigantic interest, was born in Vermont, and to 
his commercial ability and geographical knowledge the inception and successful carrying 
on of this vast industry is due. Mr. Young, after a life-long and arduous attention to this- 
business, demised in July, 1886, and was succeeded by his son. 

Mr. O. E. Young, secretary, treasurer and manager, is an Ohioan by birth, and came to 
Cleveland when a boy. He is a first-class business man of great executive ability and ex- 
perience, having previously filled the position of secretary and treasurer of several other 
coal companies. 



H. W. HUBBARD, 

Merchant Tailor — Nos. 226 and 228 Bank St., Weddell House Block. 

There are three essentials to creditable dress, without which it is unattainable by hon- 
est means, viz : Good taste, a good bank account, and a good tailor. The first may be 
dispensed wiih on the part of the aspirant, provided the last — the tailor — is abundantly 
endowed with it; but for the second there is no known substitute, since che knights of the 
shears have at last tumbled to and enforced a maxim that all successful men in other call- 
ings have long venerated as the touchstone of all real prosperity — a maxim of but two 
magic words which contain in condensed form the whole gospel of business — li No Credit.'''' 
But there is no discoverable plan by which good clothes — good in material, cut, style, 
make-up and fit — can be secured without the instrumentality of a good tailor. All the 
experience of all the past goes to establish this fact, and he who tries to evade it is a proper 
subject for both ridicule and sympathy. 

And this brings us to the point, which is that many of Cleveland's best-dressed and 
wealthiest men are in the habit of going to Hubbard, Nos. 226 and 228 Bank street, Wed- 
dell House block, for their apparel — an excellent habit, by the way, and worthy of ex- 
tended imitation. Mr. Hubbard has been located here since 1876, and has earned for him- 
self a reputation for artistic cutting and elegant workmanship that is not confined to the 
city or its vicinity, but extends to distant points in this and adjoining States, whence 
come some of his best customers. It is only necessary in this connection to say that Mr. 
Hubbard studies to please, and seldom if ever fails of doing so. 

His establishment is in all respects first-class, occupying two commodious stores fronting 
on Bank street with private entrance direct to the Weddell House in rear. His stock of 
fine suitings, pants goods, overcoatings, vestings, trimmings, etc., is always full, and em- 
brace-; the choicest weaves of celebrated French and English looms. He employs a force 
of thirty-five workmen, among them several of the best cutters in the country, and can 
guarantee satisfaction, even to the most fastidious. All work is done expressly to order,, 
and no " hand-me-down " department is maintained. 




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ADAMS & FORD, 

Manufacturers of Custom-Made Boots and Shoes, and General Distributing Agents 
for the Celebrated " Candee " Rubber Goods — Nos. in, 113 and 115 Bank St. 

The average American citizen, whether 
male or female, likes a neat, well-fitting and 
comfortable boot or shoe, and if the means 
are obtainable is more than liable to have it 
— or a pair of 'em. There can be no 
question that there is a vast quantity 
of "snide" foot-gear on the market, made 
to sell without reference to real value, 
but buyers of this class of goods have no 
right to complain when they find them- 
selves "meandering on their uppers " after 
a brief martyrdom from corns, bunions, 
chafed heels and squeezed insteps, for they 
" saved money " in buying, and verily they 
have their reward. In the matter of boots 
and shoes, as in all other things, it is possi- 
ble to overdo economy, and the wise man 
seldom, if ever, invests in " cheap " foot- 
leather. He examines the goods offered him 
with an eye to material, style, workmanship 
and fit, and when suited in these essentials 
never permits a few cents to stand in the 
way of a purchase, for he knows he will 
more than recoup in service and comfort thie 
difference in price. 

All of which brings us to w T hat we started 
out to say, viz : that one of the most reliable and reputable boot and shoe manufacturing 
houses extant is located here in Cleveland — that of Adams & Ford, Nos. 11 1, 113 and 
115 Bank street, where they occupy a fine four-story building, 50x125 feet, as sales 
department, with a five-story factory, 50x55 feet, in rear. Their store is one of the 
most elegant and commodious in the city, stocked at all seasons with full lines of supe- 
rior goods of their own manufacture, embracing men's and boys' best quality hand and 
machine-made kip and calf boots, shoes and gaiters, ladies', misses' and children's fine 
shoes, etc. The factory equipment embraces all the late improvements in shoe machinery, 
including the new improved shoe-sole stitcher, which far excels the McKay. Over one 
hundred skilled operatives are employed here, while some twenty-five men do the work 
in the salesrooms and office. The wage-roll alone amounts to $1,500 per week, and the 
annual sales foot up more than $700,000, the goods being very popular with trade and 
consumers throughout Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and even as far East as 
Pennsylvania, and West as Kansas. The specialties of the house are best quality hand- 
made kip boots and women's fine sewed work. 

The firm was established in 1864 by Messrs. A. E. Adams and S. C. Ford, the latter an 
Ohioan. Mr. Adams died October 2, 1886, and Mr. Ford, still full of energy and enter- 
prise, continues the business under the original name and style. 



VIADUCT BOILER WORKS. 



A. Angstedt, Practical Boiler Maker and Dealer in Second-Hand Boilers — No. 30 

West Center St. 

Nothing is of greater importance to employers of steam for power or heating than the 
character of the boilers wherein is generated that most excellent of servants and most dan- 
gerous of masters. In the construction of steam boilers, more, perhaps, than in any other 
vocation, a combination of the highest mechanical skill and strict honesty are required in 
the manufacturer, since a lack of either may at any time result in disaster to life and 
property. 

Mr. A. Angstedt, proprietor of the famous Viaduct boiler works, No. 30 West Center 
street, answers fully to these requirements, and buyers of his work need have no fear of 
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weak joints or faculty plates. Mr. Angstedt has resided in Cleveland for twenty-two 
years, and leased the above works last fall. They were established by Mr. J. Chatterton 
in 1880, and occupy a brick building 40x80 feet. Thirty workmen are employed, and 
the equipment of machinery — steam punches, shears, etc. — is first-class. The output 
hitherto has ranged from $12,000 to $14,000 per annum in value, but will doubtless largely 
exceed that in the future under the new proprietor's energetic management. 

The specialties of the Viaduct boiler works comprise every description of stationary 
boilers, large and small, and repairs of all kinds. The trade extends all over Ohio. 



THE COLWELL & COLLINS NORWAY BOLT CO., 

Manufacturers of Carriage and Tire Bolts and All Kinds of Spring Bolts, Forged 

Nuts, etc. 

This company was organized April I, 1876, with ample capital for the manufacture of a 
full line of Norway iron carriage and tire bolts, shaft, step, perch, cone-head, steeple-head 
and whiffletree bolts, and also all the various styles of spring bolts, from both Norway 
and choice grades of refined iron. 

The manufacturing facilities are unsurpassed, and the plant is a large one, their buildings 
affording a floorage area of about 250,000 square feet, and are occupied by machinery of 
the most approved character for the rapid and economical manufacture of the company's 
products. In addition to the line of Norway iron carriage bolts mentioned above, the 
demand for a bolt which should be less expensive induced this company to add their brand 
of " P. P." carriage bolts to their other manufactures some two years ago. This brand has 
met with unqualified success in the market, and deservedly so, as only the best of material 
made expressly to their order for this brand is used, and the bolts have the same finish as 
is given to those made from Norway iron. 

Their trade extends throughout the United States, from Maine to California, and also to 
Canada and more distant countries, and is steadily increasing in volume. The daily 
product is about 75,000 bolts, and employment is given to about 100 workmen. Only 
foolts of the finest grades are manufactured, and all are fully guaranteed. The officers 
of the company are : A. G. Colwell, president ; C. E. Collins, secretary and treasurer, 
and A. L. Colwell, superintendent, and the establishment ranks among the leading 
enterprises of Cleveland. The works are located on Girard street, near the C, C, C. & 
I. Railwroad. 



CLEVELAND SPRING CO., 

Manufacturers of Finest Quality Steel Carriage, Wagon, Seat and Car Springs — Cor- 
ner West River and Winslow Sts. — E. H. Bourne, President ; S. Bourne, Secre- 
tary ; J. E. Norris, Treasurer ; Wm. K. Corlett, Superintendent. 

Prominent among the old-established and leading industrial institutions of Cleveland is 
the Cleveland Spring Company, founded in 1868. The capital stock is $75,000, and the 
plant is well housed in the big one and two-story brick structure, 80 x 350 feet, at the cor- 
ner of West River and Winslow streets. One hundred skilled workmen are employed, and 
the output for some years has averaged $150,000 in value, going to the trade all over North 
America, besides large exports to Australia — in which latter country, by the way, Ameri- 
can manufactured goods are rapidly growing in popularity because of superior neatness and 
excellence of material and workmanship. 

The specialties of this company embrace every variety of improved carriage, wagon, car 
and seat springs of the finest quality of steel, carefully and scientifically constructed, and 
designed both for ornament and use. One of the best proofs of the success of the com- 
pany in meeting the views of vehicle builders and buyers is found in the fact that the de- 
mand grows steadily in the face of determined competition, and that the venture becomes 
more and more prosperous as its products become better known. 

The company is composed of well-known and respected business men. President E. H. 
Bourne is also president of the Bourne & Knowles Manufacturing Co., and cashier of the 
Union National Bank. Secretary S. Bourne fills the same position with the Bourne & 
Knowles Manufacturing Co. Treasurer Norris is from Massachusetts and has resided here 
since 1868. Superintendent Corlett was born in the Isle of Man, is 60 years old, and a 
stockholder in the company. 



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THE CLEVELAND STAINED GLASS WORKS. 

George Drake, Proprietor — Doan Block, No. 250 Erie St. 

Among the finer arts brought to great perfection in the middle ages that of staining 
glass was one of the most important, the old cathedrals of Southern Europe bearing wit- 
iness to this day of the wonderful taste, skill, patience and labor expended upon their 
-windows in the delineation of sacred and devotional subjects. The art was almost com- 
pletely lost during the revolutionary period and the time of the so-called Reformation, 
when stern and unreasoning zeal set itself to stamp out all that was beautiful and attrac- 
tive in the forms and belongings of religion, and has been revived only within the past 
half century, by slow and painful degrees, but with unexpected success, as is attested by 
■the results now attained as compared with the best efforts of the last generation. 

Of those who have devoted their time and talents to the advancement of glass staining 
as applied to architecture, we know of no one who has achieved more or greater triumphs 
than has Mr. George Drake, proprietor of the Cleveland Stained Glass Works, which 
occupy two floors, 18 x 90 feet each, of the fine Doan block, No. 250 Erie street. Mr. 
Drake began in a small way and in the face of many difficulties in the year 1881, and by 
the exercise of rare artistic taste and judgment, industry and business capacity, has made 
his establishment one of the most noted and largely patronized of the kind in the United 
States, doing a very large amount of work and employing twelve to fifteen first-class 
artists and operatives. Most of the best work of this kind now done in and around the 
•city, both ecclesiastic and domestic, is from these works, whose popularity is steadily on 
the increase. The Cleveland Iron Trade Review of Nov. 13, 1886, after referring to the 
work done in numerous churches and houses, says of a contract then just completed : 

" Among the many public institutions adorned by this company we could not select a 
more fitting instance than that of the newly erected Masonic institution, of this city, as 
the stained glass windows are perfect masterpieces of the art, and are not to be surpassed 
by anything of their kind in the country. Unanimous expressions of praise were ac- 
corded by the thousands of Masons and their friends who came to see and criticise. The 
circular transom over the doorway (one of the largest pieces of stained glass work in the 
country) comprises designs emblematic of the several degrees in lodge and chapter, 
having as a central figure a Knight Templar clad in full armor, nearly of life size, while 
the window facing the entrance door of the building has a design of surpassing beauty, 
illustrative of the first degree in Masonry. The former is an original design by Mr. 
Geo. Drake, assisted by his son, Mr. Edwin Drake (who, by the way, is an adept in every 
branch of the business), and the latter from a suggestion furnished by a well-known citi- 
zen and leading member of the craft. A similar remark is applicable to domestic work, 
with just this addition, that the number of patrons would appear to be legion." 

To the business of Mr. Drake has recently been added that of Messrs. Geo. R. Lindsay 
& Co., which has given it additional strength and impetus. Mr. Lindsay's high qualifica- 
tions as an artist have received the most generous acknowledgment from architects and 
artistic patrons throughout the States, and assisted, as he now is in his new sphere of 
artistic manager by two other artists and a staff of first-class workmen, the future prog- 
ress and prosperity of the Cleveland Stained Glass Works may be looked for with the 
most absolute assurance. , 



A. MITERMILER, 



Architect — Room 7, No. 52 Public Square. 

Mr. Mitermiler has successfully pursued his profession in Cleveland for more than fif- 
teen years, having established himself at No. 180 Ontario street in 1872. Here he exe- 
cuted plans for much of the most attractive and costly business property in Cleveland, 
gradually but surely earning for himself a substantial and well-deserved reputation as a 
skillful, talented, conscientious, and painstaking architect; equal to any demand upon his 
resources, capable and industrious. Among the more noted of his achievements may be 
mentioned the designs for Schlather's, Gehring's and Leisy's breweries, Kundts' factory 
building, and numerous other handsome piles. Mr. Mitermiler gives equal attention to 
all classes of buildings, and is equally successful in each, as many fine residences and mer- 
cantile blocks attest. 

Mr. Mitermiler removed to Room 7, No. 52 Public Square, in 1886, and is busier than 
■ever. He is a Bohemian by birth, coming to America in 1866. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



STANDARD ENGRAVING CO. 



No. 82 Superior St. 

Of all the finer arts not one 
is capable of rendering as. 
much or as generally diffused 
pleasure to the eye as that of 
the engraver. It is an art 
that,, like printing, only more 
graphically and accurately in 
many respects, preserves and 
perpetuates all other arts, 
giving at a glance a more 
perfect idea of contemporane- 
ous men and objects than, 
could be conveyed by vol- 
umes of descriptive writing.. 

Conspicuous among the 
progressive engraving houses 
of this day is the Standard 
Engraving Company of this 
city, whose well-equipped es- 
tablishment in the Atwater 
building, No. 82 Superior- 
street, is one of the most 
complete in the country. A 
competent force of skilled 
engravers is regularly em- 
ployed, and a vast amount of 
superior work is done, in- 
cluding wood, metal and 
photo engraving in all their 
branches. This company was 
organized by Messrs. W.. 
Engel and C. C. Wyman in 1883, Mr. Wyman retiring in 1886. Mr. W. Engel is now in. 
full charge. 

HERRICK, HARRIS & CO., 



Successors to Thompson & Herrick — Manufacturers of Pure Bone Meal and Best 
Quality of Phosphates — Office and Warehouse, Corner Seneca and Canal Sts.; 
Factory, Linndale, O. 

This flourishing firm, which two years ago succeeded the famous old house of Thompson 
& Herrick, is composed of Messrs. Earl Herrick, W. Harris and L. A. Thompson, occu- 
pying a roomy and substantial two-story and basement brick building, 60 x 60 feet, at 
Seneca and Canal streets, as office and warehouse, arid operating an extensive and well- 
equipped factory at the village of Linndale, Ohio. The annual sales of the house, almost 
exclusively in northern Ohio, average about twelve thousand tons, and are steadily in- 
creasing. 

The manufacture of commercial fertilizers is a growing industry, and one of recognized 
value to the agricultural interest. It is conceded that without proper manures the soil 
soon becomes exhausted from steady cropping, while on the other hand the judicious ap- 
plication of improved fertilizers (at the head of which stand the higher grades of bone 
meal and phospates) not only maintains but increases the fertility of all soils, even restor- 
ing and making more valuable than ever those worn-out fields formerly so plentiful all 
over the older States. 

The pure bone meal and phosphates prepared by Messrs. Herrick, Harris & Co. have an 
established reputation and are in steady and rapidly-augmenting demand throughout 
Northern Ohio especially, where their merits are best known. The trade is promptly- 
supplied on application at lowest figures, quality of goods considered. 




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CLEVELAND NOVELTY CO. 

E. A. Giffhorn, Manager — Manufacturers of Hand-made Worsted Goods, Lace Goods, 
Novelties, etc. — Nos. 85 and 87 Wood St. 

It is unnecessary to speak of the 
popularity of modern worsted and 
lace goods ; their universal presence 
in our homes and in the attire of our 
wives, daughters and sweethearts is 
sufficient evidence of the fact, while 
the establishment of factories for 
their production at most leading 
commercial centers indicates the 
faith of the projectors in the growth 
and permanence of the demand. 
One of the latest and most promising 
ventures in this field is that of the 
Cleveland Novelty Company, man- 
aged by Mr. E. A. Giffhorn, inaugu- 
rated January 1, 1887, and occupy- 
ing 40x60 feet of the beautiful 
Lithograph building, Nos. 85 and 87 
Wood street. This company are 
manufacturers on a large scale of 
every description of hand-made 
worsted goods, laces and lace goods, 
and knitted and worsted novelties, 
and a fair estimate places its sales at 
:a large amount. That they will increase from year to year there can be no reasonable 
doubt. Already over one hundred operatives are employed. 

Mr. E. A. Giffhorn, the manager, is a native of Germany, aged forty, and a resident of 
Cleveland for the past twenty years. Up to 1879 ne traveled for Morgan, Root & Co., and 
was subsequently for six or seven years a member of Giffhorn, Pothman & Co., corner 
Bank and Lake streets. He travels a part of the time in the interest of his present concern. 



CLEVELAND LINSEED OIL CO. 



G. E. Herrick, President ; H. C. Welch, Secretary and Treasurer ; J. P. Mansfield, 
Manager ; J. W. Evans, Superintendent — Manufacturers of Linseed Oil — British, 
French, Winter and Fall Sts. 

The Cleveland Linseed Oil Company was organized and incorporated in 1883, with a 
paid-up capital of $300,000, to succeed the Cleveland Linseed Oil Works, the latter having 
succeeded Griswold & Dunham, who founded the industry in 1868. At this time the 
works and appurtenances occupy all of the ground lying between British, French, Winter 
and Fall streets, an irregular block equal in dimensions to 210x390 feet. The old mill at 
French and Winter streets is devoted to the production of oil from the seed by the old 
hydraulic pressure process. This portion of the works is three stories in height, 60 x 60 
feet, with basement. The new mill, fronting on British street, also three stories and 
basement, 35 x 45 feet, is provided with a superb equipment of machinery designed for 
the Evans process. The warehouses are three in number — No. I, 6ox"6o feet, three stories 
and basement, for the storage of seed and oil cake ; No. 2, 65 x 85 feet, built on the ele- 
vator style, for the storage of seed exclusively ; meal warehouse on British street for the 
storage of linseed meal. The treating-house, also on British street, is two stories in height, 
30 x 48 feet. A railroad switch passes through the center of the works, and the office 
fronts on that track at the corner of Fall street. All in all, it is one of the largest and 
completest establishments of the kind in the United States, with a capacity for the con- 
sumption of 2,250 bushels of seed per diem, or 600,000 bushels a year. Seventy-five 
operatives are employed, and the product is distributed throughout the Central, Eastern 
and Northern States, where it is handled by the heavy dealers and manufacturers of paints, 
etc., in all the principal cities, one Philadelphia firm alone taking 3,000 barrels annually. 
The tank capacity of the works is 10,000 barrels. In addition to the buildings here the 
company maintains nine big warehouses and two elevators in Iowa and Dakota, whence 
the supplies of seed are obtained. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF CIEVELAND 



S. R. BADGLEY, 



Church and General Architect — Room 35 Benedict Block, Euclid Ave. 

Mr. Badgley located here in June last, 
coming from St. Catherines, Canada, 
where for twelve years previously he had 
been actively engaged in his profession. 
He decided that the States offered a bet- 
ter field for a thoroughly trained church 
architect, and therefore determined to 
cast his lot with us. Mr. Badgley has- 
long made a special study of ecclesiasti- 
cal architecture, is an experienced prac- 
tical builder, and confidently offers his 
services to those who have in charge the 
erection or remodeling of church edi- 
fices, and who desire the best results at 
the most reasonable cost. It is conceded 
on all hands by those who have any 
knowledge of the subject that church 
architecture is a distinct branch of the 
art, requiring special study and training 
on the part of those who would succeed, 
and that time and money may be saved 
and much better results obtained by em- 
ploying an architect who has given 
special attention to this important branch 
of the profession. Extra pains are taken 
in preparing working plans and specifi- 
cations for use at a distance so that every 
detail of the work can be easily under- 
stood, and Mr. Badgley invites correspondence and consultation in reference to this and 
all other classes of building where the advice and assistance of a skilled architect may be 
of value. His office is eligibly located in room 35 Benedict block; he has at hand every 
requisite facility pertaining to his profession, and will exert himself to the utmost to ren- 
der satisfaction to every client. He conies highly recommended by the county commis- 
sioners and leading railway corporations and churches of his native country. 




THE UNITED STATES FIRE CLAY CO., 



Manufacturers of Vitrified Salt-Glazed Sewer and Water Pipe, Fire Brick and Fire 
Clay Products — F. H. Colman, President; Percy C. Hamilton, Secretary and 
Treasurer — General Office, Wilshire Building, Nos. 209 and 211 Superior St. 

With the development of the industries of the country and the sewer systems of the cities,, 
the manufacture of fire brick and sewer pipe has become a great industry involving vast 
capital, much ingenuity and skill, and the employment of large numbers of men and much- 
machinery. Ohio is especially rich in fire clay deposits, which are found distributed in 
many localities throughout the State, those in the Eastern counties being of the highest 
grade and their products much sought after wherever known. One of the latest move- 
ments to utilize this superior clay is that of the United States Fire Clay Company, the 
owners of a fine bed of clay in Columbiana county on the N. Y., P. & O. and P., M. &'C. 
railroads. The company was organized in 1884 and incorporated with a paid-up capital 
stock of $160,000, the officers being: F. H. Colman, president, and Percy C. Hamil- 
ton, secretary and treasurer. The general offices are in the Wilshire building, Nos. 209 
and 21 T Superior street, this city, where a full line of samples may be seen and prices and 
all information obtained. 

The capacity of the works, which are located on the company's property, is about 3,000 
car-loads of best quality fire-brick and vitrified salt-glazed sewer-pipe of all sizes and shapes 
per annum. Goods are now being shipped to every portion of the United States and 
Canada, and give universal satisfaction. 

President Colman and Secretary and Treasurer Hamilton are from Dunkirk, N. Y... 
and hold the same positions respectively in the Ohio Sewer Pipe Company.. 



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CLARK-BRITTON PRINTING CO., 

Nos. 837 and 839 Sheriff St. — Wood Engravers, Blank-Book Manufacturers, Electro- 

typers and Printers. 

Three years ago this concern was started by Messrs. C. R. Clark and C. S. Britton on a 
small scale, occupying at first but one-half of the third floor of the same building where 
three immense floors, each 30 x 80 feet, now scarcely provide elbow-room for this great 
and growing business. Faith is the mainspring of many a great success. Mr. Clark is a 
practical and extraordinarily skillful printer, familiar with all branches of his calling, which 
to him is not^ a mere trade, but an art worthy of the most elaborate study and ardent 
pursuit; Mr. Britton is a born business man and practical financier. Combining 
their capital and talents, and conscientiously devoting their energies to the same end, they 
have fully demonstrated what they at first only believed — that real excellence is the true 
key to success, and that all the miserable Jim Crow travesties on the trade in America 
could not strangle or starve a single first-class printing house, conducted by first-class 
men, employing first-class printers, and turning out uniformly first-class work. In short, 
they determined to win or lose on merit alone, and the result is a triumph achieved in 
three short years such as few have attained in a life-time, and to-day the Clark-Britton 
Printing Company has on its books orders from all portions of the United States for fine 
artistic printing, and has shipped considerably to customers in Europe, Australia, and other 
foreign lands. 

The capital stock of the company is $18,000. Twenty to twenty-five superior workmen 
are employed, and the value of last year's output aggregated $60,000 — a figure which will 
be greatly exceeded in 1888. Specialties are made of fine rule and color printing, cata- 
logues, and other work demanding skill and accuracy in composition and press-work. The 
firm are also wood engravers, electrotypers and blank-book manufacturers, and guarantee 
satisfaction on all orders. 

Mr. Britton has charge of the outdoor and office business, while Mr. Clark has supervi- 
sion of the engraving, electrotyping and printing rooms. Both are pleasant, courteous 
and obliging gentlemen. 

FARASEY & MARRON, 



Agents for Ward's Lake Superior, Lackawanna, Green Bay, Merchants' Montreal, 
and Saginaw Steamboat Lines — Office and Dock, Nos. 107 and 109 River St. 

The firm of Farasey & Marron, though only established during the present year, has 
many advantages in its favor, and cannot but succeed in the transportation agency busi- 
ness. Mr. W. J. Farasey is a native of Cleveland, and from 1879 to 1886 was employed as 
bookkeeper in some of the principal steamboat offices, thus acquiring a thorough knowl- 
edge of the inside details. Mr. Marron, of Irish birth, has resided here for twenty years,, 
and for a long time was in the employ, in various capacities, of the different transportation 
companies. 

The firm's premises on River street are quite commodious, 250 x 400 feet, with every 
necessary facility for the convenient and rapid handling of freight, which is promptly for- 
warded by the leading lines of lake steamers — Ward's Lake Superior, the Lackawanna, 
Green Bay, Merchants' Montreal, and the Saginaw lines. 



S. FIX'S SONS, 



Steam Flue- Welding Works — Corner Leonard, Winter and German Sts. 

This industry was established in Cleveland in 1885 by Mr. S. Fix, who came from 
Reading, Pa., for that purpose, having removed hither about i860. By the withdrawal ofthe 
father, Messrs. Oram and John Fix became the sole proprietors, and since their accession 
have added largely to the business and prestige of the house. 

About $15,000 is invested in the plant, which occupies a new three-story brick building 
fronting on Leonard, Winter and German streets, 60 x 100 feet. Besides a valuable equip- 
ment of appliances — notable among which are several of the celebrated Hartz & Fix flue- 
welding macnines — five competent workmen are employed, and some $10,000 worth of 
Work is done annually, principally for the local trade. Both partners are natives of 
Reading, Pa., and both practical and experienced mechanics, Oram, the elder, superintend- 
ing the works. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



THE GIBB LIVERY. 

E. W. Gibb, Manager— Livery and Boarding Stable— No. 408 Superior St. 

Strangers and residents of Cleveland desirous 
of visiting the environs on business or pleasure 
will find the Gibb livery at all times prepared to 
furnish them with fine saddle and harness horses 
and elegant vehicles of all kinds, at reasonable 
prices, with or without drivers. Mr. E. W. Gibb, 
the manager, has had some years' experience in 
this business, and takes great pride in rendering 
satisfaction to his patrons. With a brother he first established himself at Newburgh — 
the firm being Gibb Bros.- — in 1882, removing to No. 363 Superior street in 1885, and to 
the present location, No. 408 Superior street, in 1887. 

The stable is a large one, 50x350 feet, eligibly situated, comfortably arranged, and con- 
ducted in a business-like and creditable manner. A stock of seventy-five handsome 
vehicles, embracing a variety of buggies, coupes, carriages, etc., and sixty-five fine horses 
are kept on hand for the accommodation of the public, and the facilities are of the best. One 
department is set aside for the convenience of horse-owners, who may have their animals 
boarded regularly, or fed occasionally, as they require. 

Mr. Gibb is a well-known and popular citizen, formerly a contractor and builder. 



EXCELSIOR MACHINE WORKS. 

Leighton & Bruch, Proprietors — Hamilton St., near Case Ave. 

An industrial concern that is contributing very considerably to the fame of Cleveland as 
a manufacturing center is the Excelsior Machine Works, established by Messrs. Leighton 
& Bruch in 1880. These works comprise two buildings— one of wood, 50 x 160 feet, and 
one of brick, 50x80, the latter provided with a self-supporting truss-roof that does away 
with the necessity for columns, well lighted and handsomely finished. The equipment of 
machinery, special tools, etc., is complete, embracing, besides every description of lathes, 
planers, steam hammers, etc., a powerful boiler and engine and three large cranes for the 
hoisting and handling of heavy castings and other materials. The working force is twenty- 
five in number, and the value of the past twelve months' products aggregated $45,000, 
most of which was for shipment to points at a distance, their facilities as yet being insuf- 
ficient to fully meet local demands, for which reason many applicants are turned away. 
The specialties include the construction of fine and heavy machinery, and they have re- 
cently completed an immense rotary planer— one of the largest in existence — for Pittsburgh 
parties, to be used in the fitting and finishing of bridge parts. They are also manufac- 
turers of the Blakesley patent bolt-header, in general use for making bolts and rivets. 

Both members of the firm are natives of Cleveland, widely and favorably known in man- 
ufacturing and business circles. 

CLAPP & KUSHMAN, 



Fresco Artists and Dealers in Wall Paper — No. 376 Bond St., Under the Hollenden. 

This energetic and capable firm was organized in May last, and already gives indications 
of a successful career. Mr. Clapp was for a number of years in charge of the Kemmer & 
Kushman Decorating Company's wall paper department, and is possessed of a most valu- 
able practical knowledge of the trade, having had upward of twenty years' experience in 
this and other cities. Mr. Kushman, late of the Kemmer & Kushman Decorating Com- 
pany, is a practical fresco artist of twenty-five years' standing, whose reputation in his 
calling is of the highest. He has personally designed and executed or superintended the 
frescoing of many of the finest churches, public and private buildings in Cleveland and 
vicinity, and, having rendered uniform satisfaction, it is safe to say has no superior in this 
country in his specialty. 

The new firm occupy elegant quarters at No. 376 Bond street — under the Hollenden — 
which they have fitted up in superb style, and where connnissetirs in such matters will find 
as fine and extensive a line of fine wall papers and kindred goods as can be shown by any 
house west of New York. From eight to ten skillful workmen are employed, and all 
orders are promptly and carefully attended to. 




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SIGLER BROTHERS, 



Manufacturing and Wholesale" Jewelers— Factory, Perkins' Power Block 
Salesroom, No. 211 Superior St., Wilshire Building. 



Office and 





Mr. L. M. Sigler established this house in 
1873, Mr - U. R. Sigler being admitted in 
1880. The venture has been a successful one 
from the start, and the firm have extended 
their operations by degrees until at this time 
they number their regular patrons by hun- 
dreds, embracing most of the leading jewelers 
throughout the West. They do a heavy 
trade in fine gold jewelry and diamonds, of 
which they are importers and jobbers, besides 
manufacturing largely on their own account. 
They also do a general jobbing business, and are prepared to fill orders to any extent, 
promptly and at reasonable figures. 

Sigler Brothers' factory occupies an entire floor of Perkins' Power block, Frankfort 
street. They manufacture all kinds of Masonic, Odd Fellows' and other society badges 
and charms, diamond mountings, rings, etc. Their office and salesroom, on the second floor 
of the Wilshire block, No. 211 Superior street, is a most attractive place, 20 x 160 feet. 
They carry a large stock of watches, diamonds, jewelry, clocks, opera glasses, French 
■ clocks, watchmakers' tools and material. 

Both brothers are from Trumbull county and are practical jewelers. 



WOLTMAN & KORELfL, 



Manufacturers of All Styles of Carriages and Wagons — Nos. 444,^446 and 448 Wood- 
land Ave., and 1 and 3 Jackson St. 

The reputation of Cleveland as a carriage and wagon-making centre was made long 
ago, but is constantly being augmented by such houses as the one named above — careful, 
conscientious and skillful practical mechanics who exercise constant personal supervision 
of their works. This factory was established by Mr. William Woltman in 1874, and rep- 
resents an investment of $30,000 in their work. Mr. George V. Korell became associated 
with Mr. Woltman in 1883, bringing with him ripe experience and great skill. The 
establishment comprises two handsome two-story frame structures, the factory and ware- 
room proper, 50 x 100 feet, and adjoining paint shops and warerooms, 46 x 75 feet. From 
twenty-five to thirty men — woodworkers, blacksmiths, painters and finishers — are em- 
ployed, and a large number of high-grade hand-made vehicles of all classes are built an- 
nually, ranging from the lightest buggy or phaeton through all varieties of road and 
delivery wagons to the heaviest truck. They also give special attention to repairing, 
repainting and remodeling vehicles of all descriptions, and to construction from novel and 
original designs. 

Both members of the firm are old citizens, residents of Cleveland for the past thirty years. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVEIAND. 



SMITH & TEACHOUT, 



Manufacturers of Land and Marine Steam Boilers, Tanks and Stills of Every Descrip- 
tion — Nos. 644 and 645 Broadway. 




It would seem superfluous to urge upon employers of steam power the importance, ever* 
the vital necessity, of securing only the very best material and workmanship when se- 
lecting a boiler and steam-pipes ; yet it is a lamentable and indisputable fact that hundreds- 
of lives and much valuable property are yearly sacrificed to obstinacy and false economy 
in this regard. In the selection of a boiler the next best thing to a thorough, practi- 
cal knowledge of this class of work is to secure the services of an experienced boiler-maker 
whose interest is identical with that of the buyer, and whose reputation depends upon 
upright dealing and the faithful execution of his commissions. Such are the firm of 
Smith & Teachout, Nos. 644 and 646 Broadway, established in 1857, and who in a career 
of thirty years have never failed to render satisfaction to their patrons. Their boilers, sta- 
tionary and marine, employed in the generation of steam for every conceivable purpose, 
are found all over the Union — large numbers of them in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, 
West Virginia and Ohio — and are held in the highest repute everywhere. 

This firm are also extensive manufacturers of tanks and stills of all kinds for oil refiners,, 
lard oil manufacturers, storage purposes, etc., and their work in this department is of the 
same general excellence as that which distinguishes their boilers. Their shops are among 
the largest and best equipped in the country, employ 80 men, and turn out an average of 
$150,000 worth of work per annum, including repairs, to which they give special and 
prompt attention, plate and sheet-iron work. They carry a complete stock of new flues,- 
and take out, re-piece and reset old flues to order. 

During the past year Smith & Teachout have constructed seventy large boilers, besides 
numberless oil tanks, stills, bleachers, etc., and are crowded with orders at all times. 
They have a large trade with the oil men, and do none but first-class work. 



GEORGE H. & S. P. ELY, 



Exclusive Dealers in the Ores of the Minnesota Iron Company— Nos. 15 and 16 Mer- 
cantile Bank Building. 

The ores of the Minnesota Iron Company, obtained from the Vermillion range in St. 
Louis county, have a high reputation for density, purity, richness and other desirable 
qualities, and are in general demand by iron manufacturers, the entire output being taken 
by Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago mills. 

The above firm of George H. & S. P. Ely are largely interested in the mines referred to, 
which employ some 1,200 men and place upon the market about 400,000 tons per annum. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



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THE T. H. BULLOCK BELLOWS AND FORGE CO. 

W. E. Rogers, President; John Barnes, Vice-President; T. H. Bullock, Secretary 
and Treasurer and General Manager — Manufacturers of Bullock Bellows, Forges, 
and Tuyers — Nos. 130 and 132 Columbus St. 




The T. H. Bullock bellows, forges, blacksmiths' tools, etc., are so well and favorably 
known to the trade as to need no commendation, and this brief notice is prepared more- 
with a* view tc reminding those whom it may concern that the same house is still in 
successful operation, producing the same superior goods upon which its fame is based, 
that with any idea of adding to that well-earned reputation. The works were estab- 
lished more than twenty-three years ago, by Mr. T. H. Bullock, who is 'still general 
manager, and occupy the commodious two-story brick building No. 130 and 132 Columbus, 
street, 100x120 feet. The outfit of machinery and appliances is complete, and fifteen 
competent workmen are steadily employed, turning out about 1 1,000 bellows of all classes 
and vast numbers of forges and tuyers, besides large quantities of blacksmiths' tools and 
kindred articles. These bellows are of the best quality, and embrace all sizes and for all 
purposes — miners', molders', and hand as well as blacksmiths' — as are the portable, station- 
ary and riveting forges, tuyers and blacksmiths' tools. 

The T. H. Bullock Bellows and Forge Company is a representative concern, one of the 
most extensive and prominent of the kind in America, and has an established trade in all 
the States, Canada, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and Europe. The officers, 
named above, are all Cleveland men, honored at home and abroad. 



MENTOR MILK CO. 



M. Hammond, Proprietor — Dealer in Milk, Cream, Butter, Cheese and General Gro- 
ceries — No. 48 Prospect St. 

It is doubtful if any community in the world is better~supplied with dairy products 
than the people of Cleveland. The rich Western Reserve, with its sleek " cattle upon a 
thousand hills," is just at her door, half a dozen railways furnishing quick and cheap 
transportation, and the rosy-cheeked dairy-maid literally hands to her city cousin the rich- 
est of milk, the sweetest of butter and the daintiest of cheese every morning and evening. 

One of the most prominent and popular of the local dealers in these luxuries is Mr. 
M. Hammond, who occupies two floors and a cellar at No. 48 Prospect street and supplies 
his customers at all hours with an abundance of the freshest and purest milk, cream and 
butter. Ev'ery department of his establishment is as neat and clean as care, soap, water 
and labor can make it, and the consumer of those articles from Mr. H.'s depot need have 
no qualms of doubt. 

Mr. Hammond is an experienced dairyman, having formerly been in the same trade. In 
1885 he purchased the grocery house where he now is and also became proprietor of the 
Mentor Milk Company, including the dairy and butter and cheese factory at Mentor and 
the city depot. In all he receives about 3000 gallons of milk and cream per die?n, and 
what is not required by his city customers is converted into butter and cheese and sold to 
them in these forms. 



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W. H. H. PECK & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Rubber Goods — Manufacturers of and Dealers in Leather and 
Rubber Belting — No. 176 Superior St. 

This is the third oldest rubber goods house in Ohio, founded in 1867 by Hayes &Peck. 
The style has undergone several changes, as follows : In 1868 to Peek & Mills : in 1873 
to W. H. H. Peck ; in 1878 to Peck & Bemis, and in 1884 to W. H. H. Peck & Co., upon 
the admission of Mr. D. B. Peck, a brother of the senior partner. At first the house was 
located at No. 104 Public Square, removing to No. 141 Superior street in 1868, to No. 149 
Water street in 1873, an ^ to No. 176 Superior street in 1875, where it remains, occupying 
the first and second floors, 20 x 150 feet each, the lower for a retail and the upper for a 
wholesale department, and four floors in rear for storage of stock'. The belting factory, 
two floors 20 x 50 feet, is on Long street, in rear of stores and warerooms. Eighteen men 
are employed in all — ten in the stores, four traveling salesmen, and four belt-makers — 
and the sales average $250,000 per annum. 

The specialties embrace every description of rubber goods for wear, including full lines 
of the New Jersey Rubber Co.'s boots and shoes, the Mystic Rubber Co.'s gossamers and 
clothing, New York Rubber shoes, rubber steam packing, rubber water, steam and oil 
hose, rubber belting, New York Belting and Packing Co.'s rubber and cable cotton fire 
hose, Hoyt's leather belting, Eastman's leather fire hose, etc. They also manufacture to 
order in their own factory any ordinary width or length of leather belting. Another 
specialty that attracts much attention is the "Merino " felt boot, originally designed for 
the use of loggers and wood-choppers. Absolutely water-proof, with lumbermen's over- 
shoes yet more comfortable than rubber, these boots are coming into general use among 
farmers and others much exposed to rain, snow and mud. 



W. H. VAN TINE, JR., 

Real Estate Agent and Broker — No. 144 Superior St. 

Cleveland is a prosperous and growing city. A drive through the business center and 
the suburbs will impress this fact upon any one who will take the trouble to look around 
him. Everywhere is manifest the spirit of improvement and enterprise, and it is easy to 
predict that ere many years this must become the richest and most populous, as it is al- 
ready the most beautiful and attractive city in Ohio. The real estate agent has done and 
is doing vastly more toward the accomplishment of this end than is generally supposed. 
In furtherance of his own and patrons' interests it is apart of his business to advertise the 
attractions of the city as a place of residence, and magnify its advantages as a manufac- 
turing and commercial center, and he is most liberal and public-spirited in the perform- 
ance of this duty and all others that devolve upon him in the pursuance of his calling. In 
a word, the thoroughgoing and enterprising real estate agent is invariably far-sighted, and 
acts in the present with a clear perception of the future and its probabilities. Such a man 
is Mr. W. H. Van Tine, jr., a native of Cleveland, deeply interested in her welfare, both 
from patriotic and pecuniary motives — a wide-awake, tireless and successful young man 
who permits no opportunity to pass unimproved to advance the interests of his clients and 
the city of his birth. Mr. Van Tine has been handling real estate here since 1874, and 
though he has disposed of vast bodies of city lots and farming lands, aggregating many 
millions of dollars in value, he has never yet failed to render satisfaction to both buyer and 
seller, every transaction being marked by perfect probity and open methods. As a result 
he has made for himself a most enviable reputation and built up a colossal business, his 
sales ranging from $300,000 to $500,000 per annum. Having the confidence of all parlies, 
and an established reputation both for square dealing and tact, and possessed of every 
requisite facility for bringing together buyers and sellers, he naturally attracts both classes, 
and, it is intimated, has for several years past been the medium of a larger volume of real 
estate transactions than any other two agents in Cleveland. Among his most recent 
heavy sales were those of the Scott & Van Tine allotments and Ranney & Herrick allot- 
ment in the East end, and several similar allotments in Brooklyn, aggregating many hun- 
dred thousand dollars in value. Mr. Van Tine makes a specialty of this class of opera- 
tions on commission, and always has a line of fine bargains ready for investors. A visit to 
his commodious and handsome office, No. 144 Superior street, will repay all interested in 
real estate. 



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ATLANTIC REFINING CO., 

Manufacturers of "Semper Fid el is " Cylinder and Other Lubricating Oils — Geo. C. 
Hascall, Manager — Office, n Case^Block, Wood and Superior Sts. 

Though a comparatively new competitor for trade, the Atlantic Refining Company has 
already established a high reputation among dealers in and consumers of lubricants, and 
has flattering prospects for the future. This company the past year succeeded the- 
Atlantic Oil Company, founded in 1884, and with ample capital, the experienced manage- 
ment of Mr. George C. Hascall, complete manufacturing facilities and every requisite- 
advantage, there can be room for little doubt as to its prosperous future, the sales for the 
first year, as indicated by the business of the first half, being certain to aggregate $200,- 
000. The works are located on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad near Atlantic street, 
Fourteenth ward, and the office in room 1 1 Case block, where Mr. Hascall, who came 
here from Detroit in 1884, will be found ready, at all times to entertain callers on business. 

The company's specialties include '' Semper Fidelis" cylinder oil of 600 and 550 degrees- 
fire test. The first, by reason of its heavy body and high fire test, is considered a most 
perfect cylinder oil, containing neither acids nor other injurious properties ; the second is 
nearly if not quite as good. Their other productions embrace Mineral Castor, especially 
recommended for wagons, carriages and agricultural machinery ; " Garland " engine oil • 
"Castor" machine oil; "Genoa" engine oil, free from acids, will not gum or corrode, 
for engines and fast-running machinery ; Polar engine oil, for winter use ; Atlantic engine 
oil ; Lardoline, possesses great cooling properties and is guaranteed superior to the best 
lard oil as a lubricant ; Empire cylinder oil ; White Mineral castor oil ; Alaska machine oil, 
for winter use; Extra Golden oil; No. I Golden machine; No. 2 Golden machine; 
Angola engine oil; Sterling wool oil, stainless; Wool oil No. 1; Farmer's Harvester 
oil; Natural West Virginia oil ; Zero West Virginia oil; 15 Cold Test West Virginia;. 
No. I West Virginia; No. 2 West Virginia; Jumbo harness oil; screw-cutting oil;. 
Phcenix boiler compound; Atlantic coach oil ; cup grease, Nos. 1, 2 and 3; Jumbo axle 
grease ; Pin grease ; Petrolatum ; Carbon oils, Gasoline, etc. 



L. M. EIRICK & CO., 



Shippers and Inspectors of Provisions — Dealers in Lard and Lard Oils — Room 4. 

Atwater Building. 

The leading house here engaged in the shipment and inspection of provisions is that of 
L- M. Eirick & Co., founded in January last, with office in room 4 Atwater building, and 
which, it is confidently anticipated, will be able to exhibit transactions to the amount of 
$600,000 for the first year. The business of the house is confined exclusively to inspection 
and forwarding by rail, and the handling of lard and lard oils (this, in their judgment, be- 
ing the best point in the country for shipments to the eastern markets), of which they 
carry large stocks, and are prepared to fill orders promptly and in good shape. Mr. L. M. 
Eirick is senior member of the firm, and Mr. Charles Eirick is associated with him. The 
elder Mr. Eirick came here from Chicago for the purpose of establishing himself in this 
business, and his brother came from New York city to join him, and, as above indicated, 
they have made a success of it, shipping heavily to Eastern points by the various railroads. 

G. A. BUDD & CO., 

Dealers in Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Furs — Nos. 62 and 64 River St. 

An immense trade in the above-named commodities centers in Cleveland, and is repre- 
sented by several large and influential houses, one of the most conspicuous of which is- 
that of G. A. Budd & Co., Nos. 62 and 64 River street, established in 1876 by the present 
senior partner, the junior partner, Mr. J. B. Stuart, having acquired an interest in 1879. 
Mr. Budd came here from Elyria, Ohio, and the original style of the house was Budd, 
Hill & Co., changing in 1877 to Budd & Burnside, and in 1879 to the present form, G. A. 
Budd & Co. Mr. Stuart, of Scottish birth, resides at Toledo, Ohio. The concern, for- 
merly at Nos. 81 to 87 River street, removed to its present location the past year, 
having secured a much more capacious warehouse — 44 x 200 feet, three floors — and gen- 
erally improved facilities. 

The firm employ nine men, including clerks, salesmen, helpers, etc., and do a very 
extensive business, buying all over Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, and shipping for the 
most part to manufacturers in Boston. 



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THE MERCANTILE AGENCY. 

R. G. Dun & Co., Proprietors — Established 1841 — Principal Office, New York; 
Cleveland Office, Rooms 73 to 80 Wilshire Building — P. P. Cattrall, Manager. 

After the commercial revulsion of 1873 it was found necessary to adopt some plan by 
which wholesale dealers could promptly and correctly post themselves regarding the 
standing of the retail dealer, and to Judge Lewis Tappan of New York City we are 
indebted for the admirable system now carried on by R. G. Dun & Co. Commenced by 
him in 1841 in the city of New York, it has been carried on uninterruptedly by his suc- 
cessors under the styles of Lewis Tappan & Co., Tappan & Douglas, B. Douglas & Co., 
Dun, Boyd & Co., Dun, Barlow & Co., and R. G. Dun & Co., and in Canada as Dun, 
Wiman & Co., the changes in style being necessitated simply by the retirement at suc- 
cessive periods of members of the firm. Jt is conceded by those who have investigated 
that The Mercantile Agency of R. G. Dun & Co. is the receptacle and dispenser of vast 
stores of reliable and valuable information, constantly drawn upon by from 50,000 to 
60,000 American and Canadian subscribers, and that the credits of the commercial world 
are in great part regulated by these reports, the work involving an annual expenditure of 
more than $3,000,000, including the maintenance of ill branch offices. R. G. Dun & Co.'s 
Reference Book is issued quarterly, in January, March, July and September, and contains 
classified lists of merchants, manufacturers, traders, banks, bankers, etc., in every town, 
■city, village and post hamlet in the United States and British America, with appended 
ratings which show their approximate net worth, general credit and standing. Full and 
accurate shipping directions are given, and recently added new features include exhaustive 
classification of the trades and late and complete maps of all the States and of the Domin- 
ion. Special attention is given to the collection of overdue accounts in any part of the coun- 
try. The Cleveland branch, rooms, 73 to 80 Wilshire building, was established in 1858. 
Mr. Cattrall, the present manager, took charge in 1861. He is thoroughly capable and 
reliable, careful and accurate, and popular with all who have relations with the agency. 



CLEVELAND IRON MINING COMPANY. 

Sa-iuel L. Mather, President and Treasurer; Wm. G. Mather, Vice-President; 
Fred. A. Morse, Secretary — Dealers in Latce Superior Iron Ore From Their Iron 
Mountains, Near Marquette, Lake Suuerior — Offices, 3, 4 and 5 Mercantile Bank 
Building. 

"" The Cleveland Iron Mining Company was originally incorporated under the laws of 
Michigan in 1853, the charter expiring thirty years later — 1883 — when it was renewed. 
The capital stock, all paid in, is $2,500,000, held by Cleveland and New York capitalists, 
the principal offices being located in rooms 3, 4 and 5 Mercantile Bank building, where 
the above-named officers may be found during business hours. The company owns and 
operates five valuable mines in the iron mountains near Marquette, Mich., employs 600 
men, and puts on the market an average of 225,000 tons best Lake Superior ore per 
annum, shipping mostly to Cleveland, Chicago and other Lake Michigan ports, also to 
Pittsburgh and the furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, where there is a 
steady demand at. all times for this high-grade ore- 



THE WADE COAL CO. 

H. D. Dennis, President; John C. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer — Miners and Ship- 
pers of Coal — Office, Room 11 Bratenahl Block. 

The Wade Coal Company was incorporated March I, 1887, the projectors being experienced 
and capable coal men. Mr. Dennis, the president, is a heavy stockholder in the Morgan 
Run Coal Company, and Secretary Allen is of the Allen's Sons Coal Company. The Wade 
Coal Co., with capital stock of $25,000, is just developing its mines in Stark county, 
Ohio, near North Industry, where it owns 150 acres of fine coal lands. At present the 
capacity is about 50,000 tons per annum, only seventy-five men being employed, but it is 
the intention to increase the output as the demand augments — an event that is confi- 
dently expected, as the fuel is of the best quality and is delivered promptly and in excel- 
lent shape. 

Manufacturers and others requiring a superior grade of steam and heating fuel should 
not fail to give the Wade coal a trial. 



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THE WALKER MANUFACTURING CO. 




J. B. Perkins, President ; Z. M. Hubbell, Secretary and Treasurer ; John Walker, 
Manager — Founders and Machinists— Manufacturers of Shafting, Couplings' 
Hangers, Machine Molded Gears, Walker's Patent Cranes, etc. — Waverly Ave', 
and Breakwater St. 

It is doubtful if any more uni- 
formly successful manufacturing con- 
cern was ever organized than the 
Walker Manufacturing Company, 
which, incorporated in 1883 Wlt h a 
capital stock of $125,000, at once 
established its works and entered upon 
a career of marked and increasing 
prosperity, such as few of its com- 
petitors, even of long standing, have 
ever enjoyed. In order to meet the 
rapidly growing demands upon their 
resource?, the company in 1886 pur- 
chased the entire plant of the Whipple 
Manufacturing Company, adjoining 
their original works, and rebuilt, 
repaired and refitted the shops, thus 
nearly doubling their manufacturing 
capacity, which is now equal to 20 
tons of finished work daily, while 
their monster outfit enables them to 
-turn out the largest castings with ease. As an example, on September 16 they made a 
perfect spur gear that required eighteen tons of metal. Two 
hundred and thirty men are employed in all departments, and 
their work goes to all parts of the States and Canada. They have 
just completed a plant for the Metropolitan Street Cable Railway 
Company of Kansas City, Mo., comprising all the machinery for 
operating a cable line six miles in length. 

While manufacturing full lines of power transmitting machinery, 
the company make specialties of shafting, pulleys, hangers, ma- 
chine molded gearing and traveling cranes — the latter invented 
and patented by Mr. John Walker, manager of the works, an ac- 
complished mechanic, formerly with Poole & Hunt, Baltimore, 
Md. It is to Mr. Walker's skill, in fact, that much of the s'uccess 
of this concern is due. He is also the inventor of the Walker 
gear-molding machinery in use here, which produces all classes of 
light and heavy gearing of improved design and accuracy of pitch 
in large quantities and much more rapidly 
than by any other process. Catalogues 
and price lists are mailed on application. 
The company is first-class in its person- 
nel. President J. B. Perkins is a prominent capitalist, largely 
interested in manufactures, owner of the Wilshire, Power and 
Blackstone blocks, and among the foremost in all movements for 
the benefit of the city. Secretary and Treasurer Hubbell is a 
native of New York and a prominent member of the Board of Ed- 
ucation. Of Manager Walker we have already spoken. 

WM. MOLL, 






Manufacturer of Light Machinery and Metal Patterns — No. 57 Center St. 

There is always a demand for light machinery and appliances for the trades and pro- 
fessions, and the ingenious and skillful mechanic who is properly equipped for the work 
cannot fail of patronage and appreciation. Among the best and most successful of this 
-class of artisans stands Mr. Wm. Moll, who occupies the top floor, 20 x 50 feet, of the 
three-story brick building No. 57 Center street, where he is prepared with careful work- 



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men and special conveniences to do all work in this line at short notice and in the best 
style. Mr. Moll also makes a specialty of metal patterns of all kinds for foundrymen, 
machinists, shoe manufacturers, etc., and has a growing city trade. 

This enterprise was started in 1881 by Sherer & Moll, Mr. Sherer retiring a year later. 
Mr. Moll is a pleasant and courteous gentleman, a master of his calling, and is certain to 
prosper. He is comparatively young, aspiring, and worthy of confidence. 



THE CLEVELAND TARGET CO. 

J. M. Taylor, President ; C. J. Sheffield, Vice-President ; Edward L. Day, Secretary 
and Treasurer — Manufacturers of Blue Rock Pigeons and Traps — Office, No. 76 
Superior St. 

The difficulty of procuring, and 
the expense attendant upon using 
live birds for shooting tourna- 
ments, to say nothing of the 
cruelty inflicted, long ago made 
the construction of a reliable in- 
animate target that would closely 
imitate the flight of the living 
bird a much-sought disideratum. 
The " Bussey gyro " was the first 
device of this kind to attract at- 
tention, and really possessed some 
merit, but failed of popularity 
because of its expense and in- 
convenience and the labor and 
delay requisite in working the 
cumbersome and complicated 
trap. The glass ball came next, 
but was abandoned for obvious 
reasons — its flight described a 
curve totally unlike that of a 
bird, and broken glass on lawn and field was objectionable. " A composition ball of pitch 
and plaster failed because of its poor and unnatural flight. The Ligowski clay pigeon 
met the same fate for the same reason and for the further one that the tongue attached 
for regulation of its course usually fell off in damp weather. The "blackbird" was 
objectionable because of its color and liability to breakage in transit and by the trap. 
The "blue rock," patented and manufactured by the Cleveland Target Company, is the 
latest and unquestionably the most perfect of all attempts to solve this difficult problem. 
Of this device the American Field, an authority in sporting matters, has this to say in 
its issue of January, 1887: "Closing the line of successive steps in inanimate target 
manufacture and introduction, we may speak briefly of the Blue Rock Pigeon, as embody- 
ing all the thought and teachings of twenty years of experience. This bird has a yellow 
crown, adapting it to all backgrounds ; is manufactured under a patent process by which 
the material is compressed into shape, making the bird very dense and at once the least 
liable to break by transportation and handling, and at the same time to shatter completely 
to pieces when hit by shot. The trap made expressly for the Blue Rock is so constructed 
that it imparts to the bird a high rotary motion, at the same time delivering it with little 
or no friction. The flight is steady and is not perceptibly affected by the wind. In 
short, the future can scarcely hold in store for trap shooting anything more perfect than 
the Blue Rock pigeon and trap. 

Herewith is presented a view of the " Blue Rock" trap, so constructed as to impart to 
the bird a high rotary motion, which overcomes the effect of the wind, the bird always 
going the desired direction and distance and at a uniform rate of speed, alighting upon 
the ground as gently and gracefully as its namesake. Most trap shooters are familiar with 
the fact that heretofore, in order to obtain distance, the first part of the flight of th bird 
was at a high rate of speed, and when the force of trap was exhausted the bird stopped its 
flight and dropped perpendicularly to the ground, often breaking by the fall. 

The birds and traps herein referred to have given unvarying satisfaction whenever and 
wherever tested, and have been adopted by the Illinois, California, Iowa and New York 
State Sportsmen's Associations and by the Ohio Central Shooting Association. They are 




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also used at the annual shooting tournaments of the Chamberlin Cartridge Co., held in 
this city in September of each year. 

The blue rock pigeon factory of the Cleveland Target Co., located on Willey street, is 
two stories in height, 20 x 180 feet— ^he largest in the world — and turns out half a million 
artificial birds per month. The company was incorporated in 1886 with a cash capital 
of $40,000, and is a success. President Taylor is a Kentuckian ; Vice-President Sheffield 
a Clevelander. Secretary Day is connected with the Chamberlin Cartridge Co. 



THE SIMMERLY DERRICK COMPANY. 



Builders of Derricks, Conveyors and Cars — No. 116 Elm St. 

Mr. A. N. Simmerly was the 
founder of this industry. The 
firm occupy a one-story frame 
building, 40 x 100 feet, at No. 116 
Elm street, employ a number of 
skilled workmen, and do a great 
deal of first-class work in their 
line, making specialties of steam 
derricks for handling iron ore and 
coal, and of steam pumps. The 
firm are making to order a patent 
revolving derrick, constructed on 
a new principle, the invention of 
Mr. A. N. Simmerly, with which 
they challenge the world to com- 
petition. It is constructed of 
steel and iron, in the most sub- 
stantial manner, and will prove 
adequate to any strain put upon it. 
Engine and hoisting machinery 
are firmly bolted to a solid iron 
bed-plate, which prevents racking 
or getting out of line, and, being 
independent of the carriage, over- 
comes unevenness or settling of 
dock. The derrick is equipped 
with either single or double gx 12 
engine, of approved pattern, 
pump, boiler, etc., complete. All 
movements are regulated by the same lever — hence its simplicity of operation. It is abso- 
lutely safe, easy to manage, and, having 216 square inches of friction surface, with patent 
combined clutch and break-band, a boy can work it. The "Standard" will handle 600 
to 1000 tons of coal every ten hours, depending upon the engineer. 

Mr. A. N. Simmerly is superintendent— a place for which he is peculiarly fitted by 
training and experience, he having had charge of some of the leading railroad and marine 
shops in the country. 

The firm is doing a large, lucrative and constantly increasing business — so large, in- 
deed, that they will be compelled in a short time to largely augment their manufacturing 
facilities. 



J. W. GROVER & SON. 

Ship Chandlers, Sail Makers and Riggers — Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Wire 
Rope, Manilla and Tarred Cordage, Canvas, Blocks, Oakum, Tar, Pitch, Oars, 
Anchors, Chains, etc. — Nos. 117 and 119 River St. and 134 and 135 Dock. 

Cleveland's maritime interests are very extensive, the port ranking second only in im- 
port ^e on the lakes in point of ship-building and tonnage ownership. Many of the 
finest and most commodious sail and steam vessels on our inland seas were constructed 
and fitted and are owned here. Consequently the business of sail-making, rigging and 
supplying lake craft is a prominent industry, and increases in volume year by year. The 
most conspicuous house in this branch of enterprise here is that of J. W. Grover & Son, 

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established in 1869 and now located at Nos. 117 and 119 River street and 134 and 135 
Dock. Mr. J. W. Grover died in 1880, his son, Mr. Criss E. Grover, continuing the 
business under the old style. Mr. G. was trained to his vocation from boyhood, is com- 
plete master of all its details, thoroughly identified with lake navigation, and an enter- 
prising, public-spirited man and citizen. His warehouse and sail loft occupy a substan- 
tial three-story brick structure, 50 feet front by 100 feet deep, is fitted up in the best 
manner, carries an immense stock of canvas, cordage and ship supplies generally, em- 
ploys twenty-five skilled sail-makers, riggers, clerks, salesmen, etc., and transacts a busi- 
ness of $250,000 per annum. Complete lines of wire, manilla and tarred rope, canvas, 
blocks, oakum, tar, pitch, oars, anchors, chains, etc., are carried at all times, and a spe- 
cialty is made of outfitting vessels of all classes. Much good work is alsodone for local 
builders and others, and those who require anything in his line will do well to call upon 
Mr. Grover. 



THE BRUSH ELECTRIC CO. 



G. W. Stockly, President; J. J. Tracy, Vice-President; Wm. F. Swift, Secretary; 
J. Potter, Treasurer ; N. S. Possons, Superintendent ; W. J. Possons, Assistant 

The Brush Electric Company has given Cleveland a world- 
wide reputation. The remarkable inventions of Charles 
F. Brush have been made available and remunerative by the 
Brush Electric Company, so ably and successfully managed by 
George W. Stockly and an able and efficient board of directors. 
This combination of inventive genius and business sagacity has 
within the last decade done much to revolutionize the artificial 
illumination of the world, and built up a business in whose 
various branches millions of dollars are now invested. 

The Telegraph Supply Company of Cleveland, O., was organized 
in October, 1875, to do a general electrical manufacturing 
business. The corporate name was changed to the Brush 
Electric Company in July, 1880. The original offices and 
shops were on the corner of St. Clair and Ontario streets.. 
These were burned in May, 1880. The business of the com- 
pany was then carried on in a factory on the C. & P. R. R., 
near Euclid Station, during the erection of the present large 
and complete works on Mason street. Mr. Brush's laboratory 
and the general offices of the company are opposite the 
works on Belden street. The general offices are conven- 
iently arranged and well adapted for their purpose. Excel- 
lent taste has been displayed in the furnishing and adornment 
of the rooms. 

The entire area occupied by the buildings is about seven 
acres. The main machine shop is one story high and 265 x 122 
feet in its dimensions. The "cathedral," so called on account 
of its peculiar shape, is two and a half stories high, and meas- 
ures on the ground plan 200 x 100 feet. The power building is 
120 x no feet, the carbon-house, 600x62 feet; the pattern- 
room and carpenter-shop, 120 x 70 feet ; the lumber-room, 80 x 
50 feet ; the coke-house, two stories high, 160x60 feet; besides 
the oil-room, tin-shop, blacksmith-shop, stables, etc. There 
are five tall chimneys, about 125 feet high, besides several smaller ones. There is an ex- 
hibition hall for showing all the styles of lamps, dynamos, electro-plating apparatus, elec- 
tric motors and other machines constructed here. An incandescence machine in the fac- 
tory supplies whatever light may be needed, and there is an auxiliary storage battery in the 
basement, the current for charging which comes from a machine in the factory. This 
same machine also charges the batteries for several offices in the factory, the general offi- 
ces, the engine room, and armature and magnet department, and the stables. These 
works are the largest works of a similar kind in the world. The machines made in them 
have illuminated nearly every city on this continent, and have been largely used in other 
lands than our own. The business of the company is growing from clay to day. Ship- 
ments are made to all parts of the world. The great shops have been crowded to their 
utmost capacity for months, and no doubt will have to be greatly enlarged at no distant day. 



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CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL CO. 

William Chisholm, President; W. B. Chisholm, Vice-President; Ed. S. Page, Sec- 
retary — Manufacturers of Steel and Iron, Wire, etc. 

The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company controls one of Ohio's largest and most important, 
industrial plants, the works being located at Newburgh and covering, with all appurten- 
ances, about 100 acres of land. The mills themselves are complete in all departments,, 
equipped with all requisite machinery, employing 4,000 men, and turning out annually 
$5,000,000 worth of finished product of the highest excellence, embracing all shapes, 
weights and kinds of merchant bar and other irons, steel, steel wire, etc., in endless. 
variety. There is a steady and constantly growing demand for all of ^ these goods in all 
leading American markets, the brand of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company being recog- 
nized as a guarantee of excellence, and consequently the plant and facilities are steadily- 
augmented from year to year to meet the requirements of buyers. 

A. G. HARBAUGH & CO., 

Lard Refiners — Manufacturers of Lard Oil and Candles — No. 34 River St. 

Notwithstanding the popularity and abundance of petroleum and its products, there con- 
tinues and probably always will be a liberal demand for the higher grades of animal oils, 
particularly fine lard oils, for which no adequate substitute has yet been discovered. The 
same holds good with reference to candles, which still hold their own, for some purposes 
and in some sections, against both gas and coal oil. 

Among the most extensive manufacturers of these goods in the West is Mr. A. G. Har- 
baugh (operating under the firm name of A. G. Harbaugh & Co.), No. 34 River street, 
this city. Mr. H. has been engaged in the same business at the same location since 1868, 
and has steadily increased his sales in the face of all opposition, producing the best goods 
and finding a ready market at all times with the trade throughout Ohio, Michigan, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and some other States, his transactions averaging $ioo,ooa 
per annum. 

WILLIAMS BROS., 



Fruit Preservers and Manufacturers of Grocers' Sundries, Comprising the Specialties of 
Virxc ar, Pickles, Jellies, Fruit Butters, Mince Meat, etc. — No. 96 Duane St. 

The above-named house is a branch of the renowned Williams Bros. & Charbonneau,. 
established at Detroit thirty years ago. Mr. R. F. Williams came to Cleveland and 
opened this branch five years ago, and it has proved a remarkably successful venture, 
doing a steadily increasing business that for the past year aggregated $50,000 of 
sales. The premises occupied are of brick, three stories, 50 x 50 feet, and ten persons 
are employed in all departments, the trade being largely local, though considerable ship- 
ments are made to various Ohio points. 

The goods of the firm are so well and favorably known as to require no praise at our 
hands; a trial is sufficient recommendation. They are as follows: Pickles, vinegar, 
jellies, preserves, apple butter, French mustard, bottled pickles, tomato catsup, table 
sauce, mixed pickles, chow chow, sweet pickles, pickled onions, mince meat in season,, 
pickled pigs' feet, pickled -tripe, sauer kraut and horse radish. 



J. B. SMITH, 

Maltster and Dealer in Barley Malt, Barley and Hops — Office, Nos. 40 and 42 River St, 

Forty-seven years ago Mr. Smith, who is a native of Vermont, came hither from New 
York State and established himself as a maltster, on a modest scale, at No. 176 Spring 
street, employing but one assistant and toiling daily with his own hands. The usual 
reward of industry and square dealing came in time, and gradually he enlarged his field of 
operations, and increased his facilities from time to time until at present he owns the two 
largest malt-houses in Northern Ohio — one on Spring street, 100x200 feet, four stories, 
the other at No. 42 River street, three stories, 90x200 feet — with a joint capacity of 
500,000 bushels annually and employing twenty-five men. The product has a high repu- 
tation with the trade, and is nearly all taken by local brewers — an indisputable evidence 
of its excellence. 

Mr. Smith is also an extensive importer of Canada barley and dealer in New York, 
Western and foreign hops, which he supplies to the trade at lowest market prices. 



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RELIANCE GAUGE COMPANY. 



A. J. Wright, J. W. Jones — Sole Manufacturers of the Reliance Alarm Gauges, Re- 
liance Safety Water Columns, Solderless Copper Floats, Reliance Sight-Feed 
Lubricators, High and Low Bottom and Globe Automatic Oil Cups, etc. — Works, 
Canal St.; Office, Room 2, No. 89 Euclid Ave., Nottingham Block. 

The Reliance Safety Water Column, shown com- 
plete in- the accompanying cut, is claimed to be the 
simplest, most complete, and cheapest automatic 
water gauge in the world, combining low or high 
and low water alarms and the approved water- 
gauge and gauge-cocks, and taking the place of the 
ordinary water-column. Several sizes of these safe- 
guards are made, covering the requirements of all 
kinds of boilers, from the ordinary house-heating 
boiler to the largest stationary and marine boilers. 

The company will take pleasure in forwarding a 
handsome illustrated price list, showing all details 
of the construction and giving considerable perti- 
nent and valuable information, to any one interested. 

These safeguards make attendants doubly watch- 
ful and reduce the danger of damage from either 
too much or too little water to a minimum, and 
offer many advantages which will be at once appar- 
ent to any thoughtful reader. They are an addi- 
tional and much needed safeguard, and are being 
adopted by many of the larger institutions who do 
not "economize" at the expense of safety. 

The Reliance float, used in 
these gauges, the invention of 
Mr. A. J- Wright, is a vast im- 
provement, and essential to the 
durability of any such appliance. 
They differ materially from the 
old-style soldered or brazed 
floats, and never collapse or fill 
with water. The principle is 
very simple. They are made of 
two spherical overlapping parts, 
joined together over an inner 
band provided with internal 
flanges, to give strength and 
furnish shoulders for the joint, 
the parts before being joined together. 

and, when com- 



The above engraving shows 

These parts are united by special machinery 

pleted, make a float of wonderful strength, and as close jointed as if 
of one piece and jointless. They are made of any]required size, will 
•easily stand 200 pounds pressure, and can be made to stand any de- 
sired pressure. 

The above ingenious devices are manufactured exclusively by the 
Reliance Gauge Company, who are the sole owners of the patents. 
They have passed the experimental stage and established their merits, 
as many testimonials based on actual experience attest, but every 
agent and dealer is authorized to sell them to responsible parties on 
thirty days' trial, fully warranted. As these gauges take the place of the ordinary water 
•column combination, their cost, beyond what necessity requires, is very low and entirely 
•out of proportion to the security and saving of fuel which they afford. 

This company also manufacture a superior line of steam boiler and engine appliances, 
including, besides the above, a variety of lubricating devices — the Reliance sight-feed 
lubricator, high and low bottom and globe automatic oil-cups, etc. Illustrated circulars 
and price-lists are sent on application. Their goods are in use all over the world, and as 
a natural result of merit, resulting in general satisfaction, their business is growing at a 
wonderful rate, having more than quadrupled during the past year. 





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BEYERLE'S PARK. 



G. William Beyerle, Proprietor — Twenty-fourth Ward, Three Miles from Public 
Square — Cleveland's Summer Resort Par Excellence — Office, [Room 3, No. 13 
Public Square. 

Beyerle's park is certain to be- 
come in the|future the people's park 
of Cleveland, possessing all the nat- 
ural and artificial attractions of a 
great public health resort, without 
any of the hampering restrictions 
that render a visit to the various so- 
called public parks more a perfunc- 
tory duty, undertaken for the grat- 
ification of curiosity and to have it 
to say, "I've seen it," than for any 
real pleasure to be extracted there- 
from. For at Beyerle's one may 
actually infringe upon the natural 
turf, lounge about under the forest 
trees, or lie at full length upon the 
soft sward and rest, recuperating 
body and mind after a week's toil, 
without being stared out of counte- 
nence by glaring injunctions to 
" keep off the grass," or dragged to 
a station-house and fined. The 
park embraces forty-two acres of 
land, of great natural beauty, which 
during the past two years has been 
vastly improved by the erection of 
buildings and bridges, the laying 
out of flower and shrubbery beds and 
paths, the plantingof youngtrees, the 
leveling of inequalities and the fill- 
ing of gullies. Seven acres of lake 
give variety to the scene and in the 
season is covered with small craft, 
among them a neat little steamer 
that skims the water like a thing of 
life. Every provision is made and 
making to render this park the 
most popular place of the kind in 
Northern Ohio — a spot to which all 
classes may retire any day in the. 
week for relaxation and recreation 
of an innocent and healthful kind, 
and from which they may return re- 
invigorated and re-inspired for the 
ordinary duties of life. Among the 
many attractions is a rare and valu- 
able collection of animals, to which 
additions will be made from time 
to time — the nucleus of what it is. 
the intention to make eventually 
one of the most complete zoological 
gardens in America. 

The cuts herewith show some of 
the main attractions. The park is. 
reached by the Brooklyn street cars- 
andthe Broadway and Newburgh 
street railroads. 




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W. A. FISHER & SON, 

Merchandise Brokers — No. 130 Water St. 

Of the merchandise brokers of Cleveland we know of none who enjoy a higher reputa- 
tion or do a larger business than Messrs. W. A. Fisher & Son, who occupy elegant offices 
at No. 130 Water street, handling vast quantities of manufactured goods and raw materials 
of every description, their transactions averaging $2,000,000 a year, and their field of 
operations extending all over the United States, East, West and South. Probably no 
concern of the kind in this country enjoys a greater share of the confidence of buyers and 
sellers ; certainly none are more deserving of it. 

The senior member of the firm, Mr. W. A. Fisher, came from Lowell, Mass., in*i852, 
and for five years was a conductor on the C. C. C. & I. railroad. From 1852 to 1857 he 
was engaged in the wholesale grocery trade at St. Clair and Water streets, and then estab- 
lished his present house with his son, a native of Cleveland, as partner. 




Thos. D. West, George H. Boyd, Samuel Lansdowne and Charles Neracher — Manu- 
facturers of Light and Heavy Castings, Wood and Metal Patterns, etc. — Wason 
St., Bet. St. Clair and Superior. 

Cleveland must have been very much in need of a first-class establishment devoted to 
the class of work above indicated, since the Thos. D. West Foundry Co., organized last 
spring and its shops opened on the first of March, is already crowded beyond its capacity 
and finds it impossible to keep up with orders — a fault, however, that will be remedied 
ere long, when the company expect to meet promptly all demands upon their resources. 
At present their premises comprise commodious buildings, with a capacity for fifty tons 
per day, on Wason street, between St. Clair and Superior, well appointed in every de- 
partment. Their trade, which was at first of a local character, has been greatly extended 
by their exertions throughout the country at large. So much has their business aug- 
mented since its establishment that the works are now enlarged to three times their origi- 
nal capacity. 

The specialties of the establishment comprise a great variety of light and heavy cast- 
ings in loam, green or dry sand, together with machinery and architectural wood and 
metal patterns for outside use. The utmost care and skill are expended upon these pat- 
terns, which are strong and durable, mould to the greatest advantage, and give unvarying 
satisfaction. 

Messrs. West, Boyd, Lansdowne and Neracher are all Cleveland men, ingenious, capa- 
ble, industrious and widely and favorably known. Mr. Thos. D. West is widely known 
to the public as an author on the various work pertaining to the foundry business, some 
of his books having reached their seventh editions, and he is conceded to be the highest 
authority on such subjects. Naturally his comprehensive experience is utilized in his busi- 
ness relations, and this accounts largely for the wide-spread reputation of the house and 
the unvarying excellence of its work. That they will build up a great and flourishing 
business scarcely admits of a doubt. 



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ABSTRACT MAKERS. 
Odell, Jay & Sons 67-68 

Agricultural Implements. 

Whitbeck & Wallace 169 

Alarm Gauges. 

Reliance Gauge Co 204 

Architects; 

Badgley, S. R 190 

Cudell & Richardson . . . , 57 

Mitermiler, A 187 

Architectural Iron Work— Manufacturers. 

Eclipse Iron Works 129 

Axles-Car — Manufacturers. * 

Bowler & Co 128 

BAKERS— Wholesale. 
Cleveland Baking Co. (The) 158 

Ohio Baking Co 175 

Robinson Bros. & Co 122 

Baking Powder — Manufacturers. 

Vouwie Bros 127 

Bankers. 

Hale, E. B. & Co 77 

Banks. 

Cleveland National Bank 71-72 

West Side Banking Co 157 

Bar Iron and Angle Splices — Manufacturers. 

Union Rolling Mill Co. 133 

Barrel and Coopers' Stock— Manufacturers. 

Greif Bros 136 

Bellows Manufacturers. 

Bullock (The T. H. ) Bellows and Forge 

Co 195 

Belting — Leather and Rubber. 

Ohio Rubber and Belting Co 9 I_ 9 2 

Belting — Leather and Rubber — Manuf'rs. 

Peck, W. H, H. & Co 196 

Blank Book Manufacturers. 

Brooks & Co ' 68-69 

Clark-Britton Printing Co 191 

Schake, William ,111 

Standard Bookbindery 172 

Blowing Engines. 

Cleveland Ship-Building Co. (The) 64-67 

Blue Stone— Quarriers and Dealers. 

Maxwell B.lue Stone Co 74 

Boiler Makers. 

• Viaduct Boiler Works 185-186 

Smith & Teachout. 194 

Variety Iron Works Co. (The) 159 

Bolt and Nut Machinery— Manufacturers. 

Acme Machinery Co 118 

Bolts — Manufacturers. 
Colwell & Collins Norway Bolt Co. (The) 186 

Book Binders. 

Schake, William in 

Standard Book-bindery 172 

Boots and Shoes— Manufacturers. 
Adams & Ford 185 



Bow Sockets — Manufacturers. 
Topliff (The I. N.) Manufacturing Co 126 

Box Manufacturers. 

Davidson & House 178 

Brass Goods — Manufacturers. * 

Forest City Brass Works 114 

Worswick Manufacturing Co 118 

Brewers — Ale and Porter. 

Carling & Co 179 

Lloyd & Keys 112 

Brewers — Lager Beer. 

Leisy, Isaac 139 

L. Schlather (The) Brewing Co 70 

Muth, Geo. V 163 

Brick — Manufacturers. 

Eggers Bros 99 

Harrison, Wm 179 

Sword, P. L. & Son 171 

Brokers — Grain, Stocks, etc. 

Kelley, T. A 175 

Brokers — Merchandise. 
Jewell, E. V 138 

Building Castings. 

Bowler & Co , 128 

Business Colleges. 

Forest City Business College 112 

Business University. 

Ohio Business University 100-101 

Butchers. 

Flick, John J 122 

CARBON Manufacturers. 
National Carbon Co. (The) 106 

Candles. 

Harbaugh, A. G., <fe Co 203 

Carbon Manufacturer. 

Brush Electric Co 200 

Carpet Cleaners. 

Fuller's Steam Carpet Cleaning Works. . 
Carpets — Wholesale and Retail. 

Sterling & Co 102 

Carriage and Builders' Hardware. 

Whitbeck & Wallace 169 

Carriage and Saddlery Hardware — Whole- 
sale. 

Worthington (The Geo.) Co 62 

Carriage and Wagon Manufacturers. 

Lowman & Co 149 

Woltman & Korell 193 

Carriage Hardware Specialties — Manufacturers. 

Topliff (The I. N.) Manufacturing Co... 126 
Carriages and Toys — Dealers. 

Union Carriage and Toy Co 107 

Cartridge Manufacturers. 

Chamberlin Cartridge Co. (The) .... 162-163 
Castings. 

West, Trios, d., Foundry Co 208 

Cattle Companies. 

Cleveland and ColoradoJ(The) Cattle Co . . 88 



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THE INDUSTRIES OE CIE VELAND. 



Chewing Gum — Manufacturers. 

White, W. J 178 

Church Furniture — Manufacturers. 

Faulhaber, George 128 

Church Organs — Manufacturers. 

Vatteler, G. F 131 

Cloaks — Manufacturers. 

Weil, Joseph & Co 167 

Clothing — Dealers. 

Hull, E. R. & Co 174 

Coal— Dealers. 

Hanna, M. A. & Co .... 101 

Hurlbut, VV. L 144 

Coal — Miners and Shippers. 

Allen's (S.) Sons 167-168 

Hutson Coal Co 143 

Morgan Run (The) Coal and Mining Co. 130 

Pittsburgh & Wheeling Coal Co 119 

Summit Bank Coal Co. (The) no 

Wade Coal Co. (The) 198 

Young Coal Co. (The O.) 184 

Coal and Ore Buckets — Manufacturers. 

McMyler Manufacturing Co 119 

Commission Merchants. 

Connor, Thomas & Co 180 

Gardner & Clark 149-150 

Howe & Wagner 136 

Pitts, J. J. & Co 149 

Contractors — Paving. 

Claflen Paving Co 96 

Contractors and Builders. 

Latimer & Moore 116 

Conveyancers. 

Odell. Jay & Sons 67-68 

Cordage and Twines. 

Grover, J. W. & Son 201 

Counselors at Law — Patent. 

Leggett, M. D. & L. L 96 

Crackers — Manufacturers. 

Excelsior Cracker Works 143 

Robinson Bros. & Co 122 

Curtains— Wholesale and Retail. 
Sterling & Co 102 

Cutlery — Jobbers. 

Mcintosh, Huntington & Co 87 

Cutlery and Tools— Dealers. 

Whitbeck & Wallace 169 

DAIRY PRODUCTS. 
Mentor Milk Co 195 

Dental Surgeon. 

Dowd, Frank, D. D. S. ..... . 78-79 

Derricks and Conveyors. 

McMyler Manufacturing Co 119 

Simmerly Derrick Co 201 

Diamonds. 

Ainsworth, J. T. & Co in 

Sipe & Sigler . . 79 

Doors, Sash, Blinds — Manufacturers. 

Davidson & House 178 

Drill Presses — Manufacturers. 

Cobb, W. B 158 

Druggists— Manufacturing. 

Strong, Cobb & Co 81-82 

Druggists— Wholesale. 

Benton, Myers & Co 88 

Strong, Cobb & Co 81-82 

Druggists' and Grocers' Specialties. 

Rosewater Bros 135 

Dry Dock Companies. 

Cleveland Dry Dock Co. (The) 95 

Dry Goods — Wholesale. 

Root & McBride Bros 98-99 



Dumb Waiters — Manufacturers. 

O'Donnell & Barrett 124-125 

Dump Cars — Manufacturers. 

McMvler Manufacturing Co 119 

EARTHENWARE Importers and J b'rs. 
Bowman Bros , 177 

Electric Apparatus Manufacturers. 

Globe Electric Co. (The) 123 

Electrical and Mechanical Specialties. 

Kelly, W. E 175 

Electric Light Machines. 

Brush Electric Co. ... : 202 

Electrotypers and Engravers. 

Eclipse Electrotype & Engraving Co. . . . 108 
Elevators. 

Union Elevator 149-150 

Elevatois — Manufacturers. 

O'Donnell & Barrett ". . .124-125 

Engines and Boilers. 

Globe Iron Works Co 54 _ 57 

Engines, Machinery, etc. 

Worthington (The Geo. ) Co 62 

Engravers. 

Eclipse Electrotype and Engraving Co.. 108 
Engravers — Wood. 

Clark-Britton Printing Co 191 

Ohio Engraving Co 166 

Standard Engraving Co 188 

FERTILIZERS- Manufacturers. 
Flick, John J 122 

Herrick, Harris & Co 188 

Files and Rnsps— Manufacturers. 

Forest City File Works 120 

Files, Emerv Wheels, etc, — Manufacturers. 

Gerlach, Peter & Co 80-81 

Fire Brick — Manufacturers. 

Shepard, J.J 173 

Fire Brick and Fire Clay Products — 

United States Fire Clay Co. (The) 190 

Fire-Place Appurtenances. 

Conger & Collings (The) Mantel Co. . . .70-71 
Fish — Wholesale, 

Edson, E. R 116 

Flavoring Extracts — Manufacturers. 

Vouwie Bros 127 

Floor Oil Cloths— Wholesale and Retail. 

Sterling & Co 102 

Flue-Welders. 

Fix's (S.) Sons 191 

Forges and Tuyers — Manufacturers. 

Bullock (The T. H.) Bellows and Forge 

Co 195 

Founders — Car Wheels. 

Cleveland Wheel and Foundry Works. . 109 
Founders — Iron. 

City Foundry Co. 179 

Variety Iron Works (The) 159 

Palmers & De Mooy 106 

Founders — Iron. 

West, Thos. D., Foundry Co 208 

Founders — Machinery. 

Riverside Foundry Works 121 

Founders and Machinists. 

Walker Manufacturing Co. (The) 199 

Founders — Railroad Machinery. 

Cleveland Wheel and Foundry Works. .. 109 
Fresco Artists. 

Clapp & Kushman 192 

Friction Clutch Manufacturers. 

Hill Clutch Works 176 

Fruit Preservers. 

Williams Bros 203 



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Fruits — Jobbers. 

Pitts J. J. & Co 149 

Furnaces — Air-Wnrming — Manufacturers. 

Beecher Furnace Co t6i 

Furniture — Manufacturers. 

Kuhlman Bros ■ 85 

West Side (The) Furniture Co 105 

Furniture — Dealers. 

Herig J. & Son 83 

GAS FITTERS' Tools and Supplies. 
Worswick Manufacturing Co 118 

Gauge Manufacturers. 

Reliance Guage Co 204 

Gear Cutters. 

Cobb, W. B 158 

Glass and Plated Ware— Importers. 

Bowman Bros 177 

Granite Works. 

Lake View Granite Works 129 

Grates and Fenders. 

Conger & Collings (The) Mantel Co. . . .70-71 
Grocers' Sundries. 

Williams Bros , 203 

Grocers — Wholesale. 

Edwards, Wm. & Co 93 

Weideman & Co 157-158 

Groceries, Teas, etc. — Jobbers. 

Wenham's (A. J.) Sons 169 

Guns and Sporting Goods — Dealers. 

Cleveland Gun Store 151 

HARDWARE— Jobbers. 
Mcintosh, Huntington & Co. .. : . . . 87 
Hardware — Importers and Jobbers. 

Worthington (The Geo.) Co 62 

Hardware — Carriage, Wagon and Saddlery 
— Manufacturers. 

Eberhard Manufacturing Co. (The) 104 

Hardware, Stoves, etc. 

Burrows & Bos worth 78 

Hides, Pelts, Furs and Tallow. 

Budd, G. A. & Co 197 

Burnside, C 156 

Hotels. 

Hollenden (The) 181-182-183 

New Johnson House 146 

Prospect House 143 

Stillman (The) 60 

Hydraulic Presses — Manufacturers. 

Hughes Brothers 137 

ICE MACHINES— Manufacturers. 
Hughes Brothers 137 

Incubating Apparatus. 

Hill (The) Manufacturing Co., Limited. . 133 
Injectors and Ejectors. 

Marty, J. M .121 

Insurance. 

Geer, Thomas H 91 

Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. . . . 130-131 | 

Insurance — Live Stock. 

People's Live Stock Ins. Ass'n of Ohio . . 92 

Iron — Wholesale. 

Condit, Fuller & Co 154 

Iron, Nails, etc. — Wholesale. 
Worthington (The Geo.) Co 62 

Iron Miners. 

Cleveland Iron Mining Co 198 

Commonwealth Iron Co 154 

Iron Ores — Dealers. 

Ely, Geo. H. & S. P 194 

Hanna, M. A. & Co 101 

Lillibridge, H. P., Agent 92 

Runyon, Stubbs & Mack . .75-76 



Iron Roofing. 

Garry Iron Roofing Co 144 

Thompson Manufacturing Co 170 

Iron Workers. 

Variety Iron Works (The) 159 

T EWELERS— Manufacturing. 

I Hammett, E. E 93 

Sigler Bros \ 193 

Jewelers — Wholesale. 

Chandler, J. M. & Co 63-64 

Sigler Bros 193 

Jewelry — Wholesale and Retail. 

Sipe & Sigler 79 

Jewelry and Silverware 

Ainsworth, J. T. & Co in 

McBride & Marcellus 164 

KNOBS — Door — Manufacturers. 
Elwell&Doty 115 

LAUNDRIES. 
Garlock, W. H. & Co 173 

Lard Refiners. 

Harbaugh, A. G. & Co 203 

Leather — Dealers and Manufacturers. 

Burnside, C 156 

Liquor Dealers — Wholesale. 

Loud, D. W 109 

Lithographers. 

Johns <Sc Co 84 

Livery and Boarding Stables. 

Gibb Livery (The) 192 

Local Investments. 

Hussey, Hoyt & Co 64 

Lumber Dealers. 

Brown, M. G. & Co 86 

Davidson & House 178 

Nonis, Geo. & Co 60 

Lumber — Hardwood — Dealers. 

Martin 8c Barriss 125 

Lumber Manufacturers. 

Woods, Jenks & Co 72 

Lumber — -Wholesale. 

Fisher & Wilson Co. (The) -94-95 

MACHINERY Castings— Manufacturers. 
Bowler & Co 128 

Machinery — 

Cleveland Machine Co 180 

Jones, E. H. & Co 180 

Moll, Wm 199-200 

Machinists — 

Excelsior Machine Works 192 

Globe Iron Works Co 54~57 

Kelly, W. E. 175 

Variety Iron Works Co, (The) 159 

Machinists' Supplies — jobbers. 

Mcintosh, Huntington & Co 87 

Malleable C astings — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Malleable Iron Co 89 

Eberhard Manufacturing Co, (The) .. 104 

Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings — Manufac- 
turers. 

Worswick Manufacturing Co 118 

Maltster. 

Smith, J. B 203 

Mattress Manufacturers. 

Ross, George G 178 

Mantels and Grates. 

Conger & Collings (The) Mantel Co 70-71 

Williams, W. 147-148 

Marine Machinery, Engines and Boilers. 

Cleveland Ship Building Co. (The) 64-67 

Globe Iron Works Co 54-57 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



Meats — Wholesale. 

Flick, John J 122 

Men's Furnishing Goods — Manufacturers 
and Jobbers. 

Klein, Marks & Co 131 

Mercantile Agencies. 

Mercantile Agency (The) 198 

Merchandise Broker. 

Fisher, W. A. & Son , 208 

Mill Gearing and Castings. 

Cleveland Ship Building Co. (The) 64-67 

Millinery — Jobbers. 

Hart & Co 139 

Mining Stocks. 

Hussey, Hoyt & Co 64 

Mining Companies — Gold and Silver. 

Mexican Mining & Developing Co 101 

Magna Charta Silver Mining <fe Tunnel Co.. 69-70 

NAILS and Spikes — Dealers. 
Condit, Fuller & Co 154 

Nitious Oxide Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Nitrous Oxide Works 138 

Notaries Public. 

Odell, Jay & Sons 67-68 

Notions — Wholesale. 

Leek, Doering & Co 84 

Nuts, Washers, etc. — Manufacturers. 

Bourne & Knowles Manufacturing Co. . . 177 

OILS. 
Atlantic Refining Co. 197 

Cleveland Linseed Oil Co 189 

Cleveland Petrolatum Co 170-171 

Eagle Consolidated Refining Co. (The).^ 151 

Globe Oil Company (The) 135 

Harbaugh, A. G. <fe Co 203 

Timmins, J. R. & Co 108 

Western Supply Agency (The) 168 

Opera Houses. 

Euclid Avenue Opera House 103 

Organs — Manufacturers. 

Whitney, Raymond & Co . . .153-154 

PACKING— Manufacturers. . 
Forest City Packing Co 106 

Paints — Manufacturers. 

Iron-Clad Paint Co 134 

Paints, Oils, etc — Dealers. 

Holden, R. T 138 

Paper— Manufacturers 

Cleveland Paper Co. (The) 155 

Paper — Wholesale Dealers. 

Kingsley Paper Co 95 

Paper Bags — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Paper Co. (The) 155 

Paper Boxes — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Paper Box Factory 127 

Paraffme Goods — Manufacturers . 

Meriam & Morgan Paraffine Co -117 

Parks. 

Beyerle's Park 205-207 

Pattern Makers. 

Cottrell, W. L 155 

Ford, Geo. A 117 

Moll, Wm. 199-200 

Petroleum Products. 
Cleveland Petrolatum Co 170- 171 

Photographs. 

Ryder, James F 58-59 

Pig Iron. 

Condit, Fuller & Co 154 

Crowl, W.H 67 

Hanna, M. A. & Co 101 



Pig Iron — Commission. 

Pope, E. C 115 

Pig Iron — Manufacturers. 

Union Rolling Mill Co. . 133 

Poultry Raising Appliances. 

Hill (The) Manufacturing Co., Limited.. 133, 
Prepared Flours. 

Robinson Bros. & Co 122 

Preserving Works. 

J. Nussdorfer. , 88 

Printers. 

Brooks & Co 68-69 

Clark-Britton Printing Co 191 

Williams Publishing Co 89 

Printing Machinery. 

Chandler & Price. ... , 165, 

Provisions— Shippers and Inspectors. 

Eirick, L. M. & Co 197 

Proprietary Medicines — Manufacturers. 

Williams Manufacturing Co. (The) 172 

Fenton, C. F , 174 

Publishers. 

Brooks & Co 68-69 

German Baptist Publication Society 85, 

McCarthy and Luck 120 

Williams (The) Publishing Co 89. 

RAILWAY and Steamship Ticket Ag'ts. 
Travelers' Information Bureau 141 

Railroad and Mining Supplies — Dealers. 

Leveaux, H. E 107 

Railroad Frogs — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Wheel and Foundry Works. . . 109 
Ranges, Furnaces, etc. 

Burrows & Bosworth , 78 

Real Estate. 

Van Tine, W. H., jr 196 

Rolling Mills. 

Cleveland Rolling Mill Co 203. 

Rubber Goods — Agents. 

Adams & Ford. , .. 185, 

Rubber Goods — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Rubber Co. (The) 90-91 

Rubber Goods — Wholesale and Retail. 

Ohio Rubber and Belting Co 91-92; 

Peck, W. H. H., & Co 196 

Rubber Paint — Manufacturers. 

Rubber Paint Co 140^ 

SAVINGS and Loan Associations. 
Citizens' Savings and Loan Ass'n. . . . 167/ 

Society for Savings 97-98' 

Sawed Stone — Manufacturers. 

Caine, W. H 141 

Saws — Manufacturers. 

Gerlach, Peter & C,o 8o-8n 

Sash, Doors, Blinds, Window Glass, etc. — 
Dealers. 

Teachout, A. & Co 142 

Sculptors. 

Lake View Granite Works 129. 

Sewer and Water Pipe. 

United States Fire Clay Co. (The) 190 

Ohio Sewer Pipe Co 145 

Sewing Machine Cabinet Work. 

Theodor Kundtz 87 

Sewing Machines — Manufacturers. 

Standard Sewing Machine Co. (The) 152- 

White Sewing Machine Co 591 

Shafting, Hangers, Pulleys, etc. 

Hill Clutch Works 176- 

Ship Chandlers and Sail Makers. 

Grover, J. W. & Son 201. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. 



213 



Ship Builders. 

Cleveland Dry Dock Co. (The) 95 

Globe Iron Works Co , 54 57 

Quayle's (Thomas) Sons 107 

Radcliffe, Wm. H 116 

Shirt Manufacturers. 

Garlock, W. H. & Co 173 

Shoddy Manufacturers. 

Muhlhauser, F. & Co 123 

Silver Metal — Manufacturers. 

Silver Metal Manufacturing Co. (The). . . 113 

Soap Manufacturers. 

Stafford. Joseph & Son 104 

Bouquet Soap Co 109 

Solicitors of Patents. 

Leggett, M. D. & L. L 96 

Speed Lathes. 

Cobb, W. B 158 

Springs— Vehicle — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Spring Co 186 

Forest City Spring Works. no 

Stained Glass Works. 

Cleveland Stained Glass Works (The)... 187 

Stationers. 

Brooks & Co 68-69 

Steamboat Agents. 

Farasey & Marron . 191 

Steam Fitters' Tools and Supplies. 

Worswick Manufacturing Co.. . , 118 

Steam Pumps — Manufacturers. 

Burton, C. H 150 

Hughes Bros 137 

Steel Screvv Manufacturers. 

Union Steel Screw Co 75 

Steel Tackle Blocks — Manufacturers. 

Ford, Geo. A 117 

Steel and Brass Wire Cloth — Manufacturers. 

Forest City Wire and Iron Works 132 

Stock Yards. 

Nickel-Plate Stock Yards 122 

Stone Companies and Quarries. 

Albion Stone Co 104 

Caine, W. H 141 

Forest City Stone Co 164 

Stove and Range Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Co-operative Stove Co 86 

Cleveland Stove Co 156 

Stoves and Grates — Manufacturers. 

Omega Stove and Grate Co 76-77 

Street R'y and Light T Rails— Manuf'rs. 

Union Rolling Mill Co 133 



Street Car Builders. 

Kuhlman Brothers ; . . 85 

Summer Resort. 

Beyerle's Park 205-207 

Supplies and Tools. 

Strong, Carlisle & Turney... .... no 

TAILORS. 
Hubbard, H. W 184 

Koebel, Henry 114 

Mizer, Conrad 126 

Tallow. 

Stafford, Joseph & Son 104 

Tanks and Stills — Manufacturer's. 

Smith & Teachout 194 

Targets — Inanimate — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Target Co. (The) 200 

Tight Barrel Machinery. 

Gerlach, Peter, & Co 80-81 

Tinners' Stock. 

Mcintosh, Huntington & Co 87 

Tool Manufacturers. 

Powell Tool Co 83 

Type-Writing Machines. 

Gates, William E 14^-146 

Payne & Pratt 73'74 

UPHOLSTERY Goods. 
Sterling & Co 102 

VARNISH Manufacturers. 
Cleveland Varnis-h Co. (The) 148 

Glidden & Joy Varnish Co. (The) 60-61 

Varnishes, Brushes, Etc. 

Holden, R. T 138 

Vapor Stoves — Manufacturers. 

Hull Vapor Stove Co 82 

WALL Paper. 
Clapp & Kushman 192 

Watches and ('locks — Dealers. 

Ainsworth, J. T. & Co in 

Chandler, J. M. & Co 63-64 

Sipe & Sigler 79 

Wheels — Railway — Manufacturers. 

Bowler & Co 128 

Maher & Brayton 109 

Paige Car Wheel Co 132 

Whips and Brushes. 

Whitbeck & Wallace 169 

Wire Works 

Forest City Wire and Iron Works 132 

Tyler, W. S. (The) Wire Works Co 105 

Worsted Goods — Manufacturers. 

Cleveland Novelty Co. 189 



Index to Advertisers, 



ART GOODS. 
Adams Edgar 215 

Axles — Vehicle. 

Cleveland Axle Manufacturing Co 213 

BOOTS AND SHOES. 
Watkins, F. M 215 

Business Exchange. 

McConnell's 214 

CIGARS. 
Hoenig, 1 216 

MACHINISTS. 
Smith, E. B. & Son 216 

PAPER HANGINGS. 
Bailey, Wm., &Son 215 

Plumbers. 

Fraw & McArthur 216 



SADDLERY Hardware. 
Steinley & Doll 216 

Straw Goods. 

Comey & Johnson 216 

DISTILLERS. 
Weideman, Holmes & Co. 216 

FOUNDERS. 
Taylor & Boggis (The) Foundry Co. 215 
Furnaces — Heating: 

Tylee, F 215 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. 
Noves & Brother 215 

TNSURANCE-- Life. 

1 Rode, Frank , 215 

Iron Ore. 

Outhwaite, J. H. & Co 216 



214 



AD VER TISEM ENTS.. 



— ^-ESTABLISHED 1869. 
MCCONNELL'S BUSINESS EXCHANGE. m # 9 9 9 

# 9 9 $ 9 # — ^>ALL KINDS FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE.. 
Over 200 Business Opportunities from S500 to $50,000. 

A. C. McCONNEEE, Manager. 208 Superior Street, 

GEO. T. McCONNELE, SECRETARY. CLEVELAND, O, 

J. M. GREENE, 

PHOTOGRAPHER, 

209 TO 211 SUPERIOR ST., 

CLEVELAND, OHIO. 

THE ELSTNER PUBLISHING CO,. 

PUBLISHERS OF 

The Industries of San Francisco. 

The Industries of New Orleans, Louisiana. 
The Industries of St. Louis, Missouri. 

The Industries of Minneapolis, Minnesota.. 
The Industries of Louis ville, Kentucky. 
The Industries of Buffalo, New York. 
The Industries of Cleveland, Ohio. 
The Industries of Rochester, New York. 

I The Industries of Syracuse, New York. 

In preparation. ^ 

^The Industries of Baltimore, Md. 



AD VER TISEMENTS. 



215 



CLEVELAND AXLE M'FG CO. 

Manufacturers"^ the 
CELEBRATED 

" ARROW BRAND" 



Wagon and Carriage Axles. 



694 BKOADWAY, 



% ** CLEVELAND, 0. 



FRANK RODE, 

:— MANAGER— : 

THE UNITED STATES 
Life Insurance Company, 

22 CITY HALL BUILDING, 

CLEVELAND, - - OHIO. 

--^FOREST CITY^- 

• Heating Furnace % 

MANUFACTURED BY 

At 472 Pearl St. $ +*$ 
OFFICE : 
Z** **$ 248 Superior St., 
CLEVELAND, 0. 

NOYES & BROTHER 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

TINWARE, 

AND JOBBERS OF 

STAMPED & AGATE WARE 
And House Furnishing Goods. 

63 FRANKFORT ST., 

CLEVELAND, - O. 



Dealer in 



NGRAYINGS, 



-^PAINTINGS, 

t-t WATER COLORS, 

_^> > ^^_ ETCHINGS,/ 

MOULDINGS, ****** 
FRAMES, 

MIRRORS, 

ARTISTS' MATERIALS, 
****** ETC., ETC. 

— ^-V95 EUCLID AVENUE-V^— 

R. H. BOGGIS, President. 

F. E. DRURY, Vice President. 

C, J. MORGAN, Sec'y & Treas. 

T—t— THE — t— 
AYLOR & BOGGIS 

t FOUNDRY COMPANY, 

Manufacturers of# — # 

^wX^Fine Gray Iron Castings* 

65 to 79 Central Way, 
CLEVELAND, : OHIO. 

Wm. Bailey & Son, 

Wholesale and retail dealers in 



P APERS UANGINGg 

T & WINDOW J SHADES. 

26 to 30 Public Square, t—t t—t 
t—t t—t 425-7 Pearl Street, 
CLEVELAND, VOHIO. 

DEALER IN — 

Fine Boots and Shoes 

OE EVERY DESCRIPTION. 



SLIPPERS AND -^-V#<v^— 

RUBBER BOOTS & SHOES. 

202 SUPERIOR STREET, 

CLEVELAND, - - OHIO. 



216 



AD VER T1SEMENTS. 



I. HOENIG, 

Manufacturer and Jobber of 

=FINE CIGARS, 



Also Retailer in Imported and Domestic 

CIG-URS ENB , 1 , 
• , ■ , TOBACCOS, 

105 St. Clair Street, Grand Arcade Block. 
CLEVELAND, O. 



E. B. SMITH & SON, 

* * Machinists, * 

DIE PUNCH & TOOL MAKERS. 



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OLE Manufacturers of 



%* MILLER'S PATENT HARNESS 
FASTENERS AND HARNESS ATTACH- 



MENTS. 



NO. 20 CENTER STREET. 



J. H. Outhwaite. W. G. Pollock. 

J". OuLt3n.T7s^a,Ite &z Co. 



EXCLUSIVE ATTENTION GIVEN TO 

LAKE SUFERIOR & MENOMINEE RANGE *J* 



* 



i^IRON ORE 



GRAND ARCADE BUILDING, 101 ST. CLAIR ST., 

CLEVELAND, - - OHIO. 



■t t t t t f t 

□ □in By 8c JniinsDn, 

Manufacturers of ++ ++ 

Straw Goods, 

* 7 to 13 Academy Street,* 

CLEVELAND, OHIO. % * 

-|- 4* 4 i i t -i 

Fraw & McArthur, 

PLUMBERS.-^§^ 
•^-Sanitary Plumbing 4 Ventilation. 

248 ERIE ST., Doan Block. 
Agents of the celebrated^H<*— 

« j^^q^qj^IY" 99 
Warm Air and Steam Combination 
Heaters, & Warm Air Furnaces. 

Any kind Cooking and Heating Stoves. 



WEIDEMAN, HOLMES & CO., 

DISTILLERS OF 

Kel ley's Island Grape Brandy, 

And Jobbers of * 

:— : W;H:I:S:K:I:E:S,:— : 

Free and in Bond. 

Sole proprietors of Bowman's Cedar Val- 
ley Rye Whiskey. 
46 & 48 JAMES STREET, 

CLEVELAND, - - O. 

STEINLEY & DDLLj 

WHOLESALE 

Saddlery :-: Hardware. 

155 SENECA ST., f | 
4 f South of SUPERIOR, 
CLEVELAND, OBLO. 



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